Comments on: Mortality http://jeffberryman.com/2009/06/26/mortality/ Cobbling together the artist's life...acting, writing, directing, teaching...making beauty... Fri, 18 May 2012 19:43:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rob Meyer http://jeffberryman.com/2009/06/26/mortality/#comment-940 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:58:09 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=458#comment-940 Michael. They say he was about to begin another comeback tour. This was the one to put him back on the celebrity map, to right all the wrong things that had been said about him, to let the world know that he was a good and talented man. It is a shame that he didn’t get his final chance. Perhaps he squandered all those years of popularity focusing on the wrong things. They say that what he really wanted was the childhood he had missed.

Farrah was an icon and a fighter, unwilling to be just another pretty face; she fought to show the world that she had talent and drive and compassion. In the end, she went down swinging. Things did not always go her way, but she didn’t let the mistakes of the past dog her heels. She moved on.

Both remind me that, even if I die in relative obscurity, unknown to the world, it will be enough to say that I have Christ, and have lived for him; and my legacy will be the ones to whom I have introduced him.

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