Today marks the first anniversary of my first visit to the Michael Jackson memorial in Munich.
Ever since that day, this place has become a home and a magical place of comfort for me… A constantly changing experience that is never nothing but beautiful.
Here’s a little journey through time, enjoy!
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June 29, 2009 - how it all started...
July 31, 2009 - the day I knew the memorial is here to last
August 29, 2009 - a girl playing BEN for his birthday
September 26, 2009
October 29, 2009 - This Is It
November 19, 2009
December 19, 2009 - Merry christmas Michael
January 8, 2010
Febuary 14, 2010 - it was a long winter
March 22, 2010 - snow is gone
April 25, 2010 - springtime
May 28, 2010
June 26, 2010 - the memorial is overflowing with L.O.V.E.
First of all I would like to thank the city of Munich who have not only accepted the memorial against all odds and rules but also are protecting it. Thank you for showing humanity in a world full of strict rules!
Nothing less with all my heart I want to thank everyone who tirelessly contribute to the beauty of this place through all weather conditions and with phenomenal daily efforts. I can never thank you enough!
Thank you also to “Michael’s” hotel Bayrischer Hof (the memorial is right in front of the entrance) who are supporting us no matter what. Michael loved you and he is proven right!
A big thank you also to composer Orlando di Lasso who is sharing his memorial with Michael now. We love you!
Michael – we can never thank you enough. Your L.O.V.E. and spirit is constantly with us!!! We are your global family!
L.O.V.E. is forever.
--- Find more blog entries about the memorial here: - The Michael Jackson Memorial in München (Munich) - Click here - Random experience at the MJ Memorial Munich - Click here - Outpouring L.O.V.E. - MJ Memorial place, June 25, 2010 - Click here - L.O.V.E. in daylight - MJ Memorial place, June 26, 2010 - Click here
plans for the “It´s all for L.O.V.E” blog on June 25 are coming up.
Karen Faye said: “We should honor his life and what he gave the world in June...and try not to feel sorry for our personal loss.”
Supporting this intent, our All-for-LOVE-webteam wants to publish very personal statements from Michael´s beautiful international family of fans to honor Michael on this day. We know that you all will go on loving him. It hurts that he is no longer physically with us – but we all feel his spirit every now and than very strong and we a very grateful for this. He brought us together on the internet to share our grief and he keeps us together to comfort each other and to bring LOVE back into the world to make a change.
If you want to take an active part of our plan for this blog it would be nice to send us a note with some personal words. You may of course take your favorite quote or some of Michael´s lyrics. Your message will get more personal, when it is handwritten and than scaned into a jpg-file.
Add your twitter-name, please and –if you can agree to this- your country right below your statement. For the security of your privacy and data: We will delete your mail and address all at once and just save your attachments or mail content you want us to publish on this blog.
Thanks for joining us and all your support. We really do appreciate this very much. As single persons we are nothing but weak– but our community and LOVE makes us strong and allows us to make a change. Remember: “We all are ONE.”
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him.
He asked them, "What are you discussing together as you walk along?"
They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?"
"What things?" he asked.
"About Jesus of Nazareth," they replied. "He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn't find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see."
He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"
They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, "It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon." Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.
This beautiful and heartfelt tribute to Michael was written and sung by lovely MJ Fam member Carina Lanes. Michael Jackson is one of her biggest role-models.
The song "Poet's Notion" was written right after his passing when she went to Los Angeles to pay her last respects to him in July 2009. "He left us something that we can continue and with this in mind I want keep doing what I do."
Enjoy!
A Poet's Notion
It was june and the night was quiet i will always remember I smelled the rain when the news almost made me surrender I looked up for the sign of a lie praying for a wonder I'm caught alive in a blaze craving for a blunder
It's a poet's notion to fall away too soon I fall away with you I'll make it a better place like you told me to even if I fall away too
Is it too late? am I overcome by a rational fate? How can turn back time or buy eternity? cos you're the one we need
It's a poet's notion to fall away too soon We fall away with you We'll make it a better place like you told us to even if we fall away too even if we fall away too
Credits: written by Carina Lanes MySpace arranged and produced by Muca MySpace
Randy Jackson is working on an arrangement to allow people into the private mausoleum in California’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park to mark the anniversary of his brother´s Michael death next month.
Photo credits to:www.lisaburks.typepad.com
He tweeted: “I’m meeting with Forest Lawn and the City of Glendale. Although they have strict rules, I'll do my best 2 see if fans can visit & pay their respects beyond the gates of ForestLawn, on the 25th. I will inform you all soon.”
The Michael Jackson Fanclub of Southern California not only visits Forest Lawn the THIRD of every month at 1:30 pm but also kindly offers all fans from all corners of the world to deliver their cards and gifts.
"A group of young Hollywood artists came together to recreate MJ's Earth Song and there is no denying... the Magic was in the studio. 50/50 music group's Dani Wright was inspired by MJ and found it necessary to bring her talented friends together to honor and pay tribute to the King of Pop with this 2010 video remake of "Earth Song". Not only is this a tribute to the King, but it is a call to action, and a recognition of the times we are living in. Don't simply watch this video,share it with your friends, family, and the world to help renew and live out the legacy created by the world's greatest entertainer, Michael Jackson.
Long Live the King."~Dani Wright
We are glad being able to share one more wonderful tribute to MJ on our blog.
Thank you so much Dani and all the contributing vocalists of the 50/50 Music Group. You are doing a great job.
Photo credit: Ólafur Eggertsson (icelandic farmer). Click to enlarge.
An Icelandic volcano, dormant for 200 years, has erupted, ripping a 1km-long fissure in a field of ice. The last volcanic eruption in the Eyjafjallajoekull area occurred in 1821.
This news remained a bit unnoticed at first because Iceland is "an island far away in the North"... So why should WE care?
Now, 2 days later the entire flight traffic in Northern Europe is stopped because the volcano ashes all over the continent are extremly dangerous for flight engines.
NOW, we do care! But what do we care about? We ask: Will I get returns for my ticket? How do I get to the place I wanted to travel? Who pays me for it?
Well, you will get returns because the flights got cancelled by MAJOR FORCE!
Ok, now start thinking. MAJOR FORCE? What is it? WHO is it?
We all know that air travel is a part of a major problem we have with global warming. But we "need to fly" around the world all the time. Because we're all so busy...
Now this MAJOR FORCE fights back and leaves us grounded without exceptions. Not for presidents, not for CEOs, no one.
Did you ever stop to notice?
What happens? Nothing. The earth doesn't stop because you can't fly. Because you don't have to.
I see this incident as a kind of "Earth Hour" forced by Planet Earth. She leaves us grounded with time to think... Think about our very own relationship we have with her. Think about the "importance" of our being. Think about our modern mobile life.
If we're not doing it by ourselves, she's doing it for us. Reminding us of our equality, belittling our constant rush.
We have got to slow down. We have got to listen.
Another interesting fact. Volcano eruptions are cooling down our global climate because the ashes absorb a bit of the sunlight. It's global and measurable.
Did you ever stop to notice?
I have been to Iceland and wanted to return this year because in my eyes it is the most beautiful country in the world that is so full of nature and contrast that it keeps leaving you speechless by the beauty of God's creation. This is the country where you can see the evolution of our planet like it was everywhere millions of years ago.
I remember the Icelandic people being very aware of that and living with the forces of nature totally different from us. They know from their daily experience that MAJOR FORCES rule their lives more than their own urgencies. After being strongly affected by the consequences of the financial crisis they have returned to their roots. MAJOR FORCE.
So I had to smile about Hjördis Gudmundsdóttir, the head of Iceland's flight authority ISAVIA when asked about duration of the eruption (hello?): „Maybe the weather gods can tell us? We don't know if it will stop tomorrow or after a year or what. Nobody can answer that question."
It lasted more than two years the last time it erupted...
Take your time, slow down. Join "Earth Year", feel the MAJOR FORCE.
Did you ever stop to notice? This crying earth, these weeping shores?
Look for the rainbow in the sky I believe you and I Could never really say goodbye
Wherever you may be I'll look up and see Someone in the dark for me
Wherever you may be I'll look up and see Someone in the dark for me
Someone In The Dark
All alone wishing on stars Waiting for you to find me One sweet night I knew I would see A stranger who'd be my friend
When someone in the dark reaches out to you And touches off a spark that comes shining through It tells you never be afraid Then somewhere in your heart you can feel the glow A light to keep you warm when the night winds blow Like it was written in the stars I knew My friend, my someone in the dark was you
Promise me we'll always be Walking the world together Hand in hand where dreams never end My star secret friend and me
When someone in the dark reaches out to you And touches off a spark that comes shining through It tells you never be afraid Then somewhere in your heart you can feel the glow A light to keep you warm when the night winds blow Look for the rainbow in the sky I believe you and I Could never really say goodbye Wherever you may be I'll look up and see Someone in the dark for me Wherever you may be I'll look up and see Someone in the dark for me
Though you're gone star far away Each time I see a rainbow I'll remember being with you Smiles coming through my tears
When someone in the dark reaches out for you And touches off a spark that comes shining through It tells you never be afraid Then somewhere in your heart you can feel the glow A light to keep you warm when the night winds blow Look for the rainbow in the sky I believe you and I Could never really say goodbye Wherever you may be I'll look up and see Someone in the dark for me Wherever you may be I'll look up and see Someone in the dark for me!
