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Postpartum Rooms. • Evidenced-Based Practice. • 3 Private Postpartum Rooms. • Certified Lactation Consultant and Breastfeeding Support. • Family Dining Room. • New Parent Celebration Dinner. • 24 Hour New Parent Helpline. What is the same: • New Parent Support Group. • The same Doctors that you know and trust. • The convenience of having your baby close to home. • The same caring and compassionate Nurses who bring years of obstetric experience with them from BOTH hospital campuses. dear readers, “Giant steps are what you take…walking on the moon.”- Sting t’s been an interesting summer thus far. No, it’s been i downright weird. Strange weather patterns find themselves trapped right over the valley, lashing the area with almost Bibical rainstorms, on almost a daily basis. I like a good rain as much as the next guy but…c’mon! So here it is at last, finally a sunny patch of sky, print deadline looming, and I got . nothing. Mind’s a total blank. Actually, it feels pretty good. What exactly is one supposed to think about, while the summer sun beats down, making your hair feel slightly scorched? Hmm . Well, OK, here’s something. By the time this issue comes out you’ll probably be up to here about it, but at the moment the whole world appears to be in full Michael Jackson marination mode. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard “Billie Jean” at least five times today, and have to say I really don’t mind. Feels like the mid-‘80s all over again, when the song was utterly unavoidable. But it’s got me thinking about the myth of the pop star/celebrity, and the currency of attention. How one’s success and value in the entertainment arts is ultimately measured in sales and popularity, instead of quality and relevance. How the only way to avoid the inevitable downward turn of the career arc is to die young or quit early. How the myth compelled Jackson— the number one selling artist in the world—to never be satisfied until he could break the unassailable 100 million sales mark, which he never did. (Full disclosure: my band’s record deal in the 90s—with a very minor hit— got me a little taste of the myth, which I happily slurped up before being dashed on the rocks of rejection. Did it take awhile to get over it? Yes… yes it did.) So here you have arguably the world’s most famous person—gifted, handsome and intelligent—with all the money he could ever possibly need. And yet, he couldn’t be happy being himself, and constantly sought to alter his appearance—via increasingly dangerous plastic surgery—in search of a youthful form that he had to know was impossible to sustain. His songs went from party down funky and optimistic to bitter responses to his increased isolation and skirmishes with the predatory media. Legal woes, bad financial decisions, marriages and divorces, and always the rumors of pedophilia, never actually proven…it doesn’t seem like it’s all that good to be the King of Pop, a hubristic sobriquet if ever there was one. The downward side of his arc certainly has matched the intensity of the upward side. Michael Jackson didn’t just believe the myth, he chose to physically embody it, having had it drummed into his psyche virtually since infancy, and it eventually killed him. Facial reconstruction, multiple dance remixes, changing countries . these are all superficial maintenance on the surface of a crumbling edifice. Working so hard on the “man in the mirror,” he apparently neglected the singer looking at the reflection, the one asking the image to “change his ways.” And now that he’s gone, hopefully he has a chance to be remembered as the young Michael that electrified the stage and made musical history, instead of the weird masked guy dangling his baby over a balcony. What am I trying to say here? I’m not sure, maybe it’s: you should be an artist because it’s what you love to do, not because you want popularity. It’s OK to grow older, you can only fight it so much. That raw ambition should be tempered at times, that spiritual fulfillment can’t be found in numbers, that happiness is permitted. That superstardom is a lot harder than the stupid myth would have you believe. Take your pick. All I know is the sun is gone again, and there are ominous rumblings headed our way, fat raindrops splattering on the roof already. Godspeed, Mr. Jackson, this sock-footed kitchen linoleum moonwalk is for you. 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