I am not alone in remaining perplexed over the loss of David Bowie. "How can we live in a world without David Bowie?" are my exes words although he admitted no great love of following his music, his life and career.
I just don't know.
However, I do know this: David Bowie was special enough to make the entire world stop turning and take note of his loss in a way no celebrity has. Robin Williams generated a good deal of reaction but David Bowie... I don't know, man. I've observed reactions that range from disbelief to despair. I've experienced both to some degree. Great disbelief and perhaps not despair, but certainly a despondency I'd never expect from celebrity loss.
Something happened on the day he died:
A Great Light left our world. We have his music but we don't have him. It's not the same although I never met him.
It's been nine months since he left us and I still feel it. Perhaps the loss of my kitties amplifies all deaths this year.
Maybe, but David Bowie was gone 4 months before Sage and I'll never forget the day I heard the news on TV and where I was and who I was with.
I was no great follower of Bowie myself but I'm sure I'm not alone in attempting to unravel the Gordian Knot named Major Tom.
