Whitney Houston 1963-2012

To the family and loved ones of Whitney Houston, I extend my heartfelt condolences for your tragic loss.  May your faith provide strength, comfort, and peace sufficient to carry you through these difficult times.  You are in my prayers. 

         Readers, no additional posts will be made to this blog until Monday, February 20^th 2012.  Believe me, it is an absolutely appropriate decision considering my heart-break as the long lens of the entertainment and news media cover this tragedy.  I think their wide and deeply penetrating negative coverage is unnecessarily intense.  Far too much of the coverage is infuriating and self-serving.  It should stop.  We are in a period of saying good bye to a legend.  Whitney Houston's going away must be filled with a spirit of love and appreciation for the wonderful life she lived for so many years, for her talent, and for giving back to communities, near and far.  May it begin right now.
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