It was 31 years ago today....

…so let’s pause for a minute to remember the genius of John Lennon.

It still makes me very sad.

Imagine…

Me too. And angry.

I was living in Berlin - will never forget how the day started off great when I turned on the radio to hear the DJ say “we will be playing John Lennon songs all day” and I was thrilled, until a bit later when I found out why they were playing John Lennon songs all day.
A very sad day.

A terrible day. Taken from us way too soon. Although I would much rather focus on his birthday, October 9, myself. But on any day, it’s appropriate to appreciate his genius and reflect on his message of peace and tolerance.

Like many other football fans, I heard the news when Howard Cosell made the announcement on Monday Night Football.

Wish I could’ve been born earlier, so I could have begun to appreciate him while he was still with us. But at least his music lives on.

Imagine it today, with the whole crowd finding out via texts and so forth. The crowd would have been buzzing like crazy.

It’s the only celebrity death that had any kind of an effect on me.

I blamed the USA and gun laws for about 5 minutes, until I realized it was just the act of one crazy individual.

There are places I’ll remember
All my life, though some have changed

What an incomparable loss. He would have been 71 now.