Wordless Wednesday: Happy Birthday Jimi

 

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 Happy Birthday, Jimi. My creative father who taught me how to stay free and be myself. 

Love you forever and a day. ❤️

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Happy Birthday Jimi

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Happy Birthday Jimi

Jimi would have been 79 today.

"In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first."

-Jimi Hendrix  

Here is a throwback from 2008 with me talking about Jimi's influence in my life.

Love you, Jimi ,forever!

Wordless Wednesday: Happy Birthday Jimi

Happy Birthday, Jimi

To my chosen father of freedom, creativity and music.
I love you, Jimi. Forever.

Dream Thought #94 : Let me Live

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die,
so let me live my life, the way I want to." - Jimi Hendrix

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He is one of my spiritual and creative fathers. Whenever I feel low or need to feel free..



I can turn to his music. He tells me what I need to hear.





Trumpets and violins I can hear in the distance
I think they're calling our names
Maybe now you can't hear them, but you will
If you just take hold of my hand




I will love you forever, Jimi.

Dream Thought #89 : Forget what other people say

"You have to forget about what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things." – Jimi Hendrix

Happy Birthday Jimi

Happy Birthday Jimi. I will love you forever....

Jimi, Jimi, Jimi

Ah..Jimi Hendrix. How can I count the ways
that I adore you. Today is Jimi's birthday.

I first got into Jimi's music at the time
I was starting acting school at Lee Strasberg
Theater Institute. I studied method acting,
so it all about opening up us and letting
ourselves feel free. Jimi's music helped
me on that journey.




Over the years, Jimi has stayed an important
part of my life. No better moment of this
came in one of the bleakest times of my life.

My friend Sean had died unexpectedly. My boyfriend
(now husband) also named Sean suggested I go to
grief counseling. I resisted at first,I finally
went knowing that I needed help.


I enjoyed the group sessions, still it was painful
for me. One cold Thursday night after a group session,
I walked down to Electric Lady Studios which was a
couple of blocks away. I always loved going there
because it made me feel close to Jimi.

That night, I was feeling low. I was angry and hurt
about everything. I missed my friend Sean deeply.
I put my hand on the wall of the studio, I talked to Jimi.
Poured out how I felt and I wished that I could have a sign
that I was going to get better. That I could one day
not hurt so much.

Still dejected, I walked to get on the six train. I came
down the stairs and paid my fare. I got on the platform,
there was Jimi Hendrix!

He was packing his stuff up. No one seemed to notice
except for me. I stared. He saw and gave me this big
smile. I laughed and smiled back. Then my train came, I
took another look and he waved at me.

I sat down. Totally blown away about seeing Jimi. Of course,
it wasn't Jimi Hendrix, right? He was dead. Then I remembered
my boyfriend Sean sharing he saw a guy who looked
and sounded like Jimi playing in the subway.

Seeing the looklike Jimi, made me feel like the real
Jimi Hendrix had heard me. That my creator through Jimi
gave me the sign that I asked for. Riding
home on that train, I knew I was on that right track.
One day, I heal my grief and make peace losing my
friend Sean. (Which I eventually did.)




Thank you Jimi for the music and the love.
For reaching out beyond time and space, to
help me on a cold Autumn night.

Happy Birthday, Jimi

Jimi Hendrix found me when I needed help the most.
I was opening up as an actor and beginning
to realize that my father and I would never be close.
He had walls so thick that not even a daughter's love
could melt them.

It hurt. Deeply. In ways that would take me years to
express.(If you have a distant parent in your life,
well, you can understand.) Jimi became for me a
surrogate father. Jimi's music reaffirmed to me what
a father would have said to me. You are great exactly
as you are. Be you. Express all of you. Don't be
afraid. Never let anyone put you in a box.

I wish I could have met him in person, to tell him
how much he helped me. Jimi passed away at 27 when
I was just a baby.

Thank you for the music, Jimi. Thank you for being
my wild, freedom loving, creative, rock-n-roll father.