I feel a little silly. I really truly do not go in for all that celebrity gossip crap. I don't. I don't read the magazines, I don't watch the gossip- y shows, it sometimes takes me forever to hear that so-n-so married so-n-so or divorced so-n-so... But somehow, on Monday, I heard the news that Peaches Geldof had died just right away. I'm guessing that there's a lot of Peaches who? questions right now... I don't know that much about her truthfully, all I know is that she is the daughter of a man I have admired and adored for most of my life.
As I said, I don't go in for all that celebrity stuff, but when I was 13 years old I discovered Bob Geldof and I have loved his music, admired his politics and humanitarian efforts, and I have been in awe of the high road he has taken in his personal life, his tragic personal life. A few years ago I had the utter privilege of seeing him perform and I can honestly say it is one of the top 10 experiences of my life...it lived up to everything I could have imagined where he was concerned.
the set list i swiped from the stage after seeing Bob, live, here in Austin a few years ago.
Shoot, I even named one of my foster dogs after this very daughter of his a few years back...
So, as silly as I feel, posting about celebrity gossip, I find I can't help it. For the last three days I've had a sad cloud over my days...I don't know if I expect to learn something from this sadness or if I expect to enlighten anyone with this post, or if this is just a purely selfish, diaryesque kinda purge on my part...I don't know...
Maybe I just want to extend my sympathies in the only way I can think of...
There are no words, no flowers, not even any prayers that ease this kind of pain. And I cannot imagine a pain worse than the pain of losing a child. So expressing sympathies seems a bit, I don't know, futile. But I want to say I'm sorry. I want to wish her family peace. I hope that grief shows them mercy...
Godspeed Peaches Honeyblossom.
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