https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/ Creative Coach, Editor, Instructor, Mentor & Muse Fri, 07 May 2021 08:36:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1337 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 04:51:32 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1337 Martha, I just loved reading this . . . the opening paragraph, poetic magic . . .

]]> https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1336 Sun, 12 Nov 2017 22:47:19 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1336 This is a beautiful tribute to Tom Petty and also to the man in your life. Your blogs: Always exceptional, always inspirational.
Thank you.

]]> https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1335 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:35:04 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1335 Thank you for such a beautiful and heart felt tribute, Martha. I loved Tom Petty too. Can't believe I missed him at the Hollywood Bowl that night. It's a perfect venue for him. I saw him there a few years ago, and he is a consummate performer, singer/songwriter. I always feel sad when we lose another musical legend, but I felt a special sadness at this loss. He always came across as an honest, decent human being. At least we will always have his music.

]]> https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1334 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:46:00 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1334 A wonderful tribute and acknowledgment of a man we were all lucky to have had the grace of experience with no matter what the occasion. I have always been a fan and you brought him back to my perception when we saw him together that lovely summer evening in San Diego. How I wish I had joined you at Hollywood Bowl. Lesson learned. Do not wait for the right time. Experience life while it happens. I should have gone, and now he is gone. And of course he lives on in song. And in our hearts and memories.

]]> https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1333 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:22:18 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1333 A wonderful celebration of a life lived to the fullest, in honesty, creative genius, and dedication to the best qualities of the human spirit.

]]> https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1332 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 04:58:06 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1332 Martha, that was beautiful. Truly beautiful.

]]> https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1331 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 02:20:00 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2017/10/27/wildflowers/#comment-1331 My heart aches at yet another passing of a great and unique word-wizard and beautiful musician. I was hooked on Tom Petty from the very first note of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I would listen to the album over and over, and sing along with utter joy with each song. The first and only live show of his I experienced was in the late 1970s, in a cavernous auditorium of a high school, somewhere in Orange County, when I was young and full of dreams. Oddly enough, I remember what I wore that night and the anticipation I felt in seeing my big crush on stage; but mostly I remember being at the edge of the stage and dancing and singing to each song with absolute abandon. His music seemed to understand me and hold out its hand to guide me to a calmer place. Throughout the years, I followed his music and it never seemed to disappoint. Tom Petty was Americana. He was genuine and uncomplicated. And he will always represent a sense of purity in words and chords that mark his endurance. Tom, you are and will be forever missed and remembered.

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