{"id":1678,"date":"2008-08-13T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/2008\/08\/13\/not-quite-sure-what-to-say\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:24:04","slug":"not-quite-sure-what-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/not-quite-sure-what-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"not quite sure what to say."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Life.<\/p>\n

Just life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s fleeting and frustrating and beautiful and stressful and confusing and enlightening. Most of all, it’s short and unpredictable.<\/p>\n

For some odd reason, I always seem to have a delayed reaction to sad news. Maybe it’s a coping mechanism, maybe it’s denial. As I sit here watching the tribute to Bernie Mac on Larry King Live<\/span>, I think it’s finally hitting home for me that a family has lost a husband, father, grandfather. His work will live on on DVD, of course, but the reality is that he’s gone.<\/p>\n

The same goes for Isaac Hayes. What a talent. What a trailblazer, a risk-taker. I was listening to Walk on By<\/span> this afternoon and felt the same sense of sadness that I now feel for Bernie, days after their untimely deaths.<\/p>\n

When you’re a kid – a teenager, even – you think that 40 is old. Anybody older than that <\/span>is basically ancient. As you mature and get to into the rhythm of your own life, you realize that 40 is just 39 + 1. Bernie was only 50. That ain’t old. Neither is 65, like Isaac was. I guess the great thing about their lives is that they actualized their dreams and showed up & delivered, every single time.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that’s what this journey is really all about anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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