Mother and Daughter
"Finally the birthday present day arrives"
Finally, the day arrives to share Audrey’s birthday present at a day on the green featuring Cydni Lauper and Blondie. Cyndi the absolute deva that she normally is played an awesome show pumping out a mixture of her iconic 80’s hits along with some upbeat new ones. At the age of 67 I can only hope we can still get around like she does on stage. The thing that I really love about her is she is truly an artist that never sold herself out and her love of music is clearly on display when you see her live which is only confirmed during her life stories between songs.
It was the first time that I have seen Blondie live - the lady that introduced me to the opposite sex at aged 11 when I seen my first glimpse of the film clip “Heart of Glass” which I am sure every young male around the same time would know what I mean. It was their live rendition of Atomic that stole the night away for me but I must say a little Aussie support artist “Montaigne” a 21-year-old from Melbourne l believe that left me with an imprint of the night….
The only bad thing of the night is paying for premium seats (still worth it though) only to have a bunch of teen girls pissed out of their brains on the terrible Sirromet Sav Blanc that they bottle and call wine miming and making up the words as they go……80’s sacrilege – lol
“Happy Birthday Audrey”, I'm glad I got to share a bucket list tick with you....
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Intelligence
I met Audrey at a time of my life when I needed someone to come into it and help me take control back of that life and it was far from ordinary circumstances. Sure, she is a stunningly beautiful woman, intelligent, angelic in fact she processed all the attributes that attracts men in a heartbeat and I could go on and on (I punch above my weight) but it was her ability to see inside me that attracted me to her.
It’s hard in life when you get to the point where you stop understanding it and it either becomes you want more from it or you’ve had enough of it and I guess at that point that’s where I was. And when it gets to that point you start second guessing everything in your and about your life – then she came into it. You stop trusting everyone around you and really that comes from you not the people around you – the war is within yourself. That trust is not the fear of being hurt but it’s more about the fact you stop sharing your inner self. -
Beauty
When I say, she looked inside me, she understood me and I must say in a roundabout way that scared me and in turn that fear lead me to probably try and scare her away, one because of our circumstances at the time but it was coupled mostly with the fear that I knew she had broken through to me. You question love and what is love all your life and for such a simple four letter word it has so many realms of context and complexity.
In this early period without doubt I had never been so honest with a person in my entire life, sure some of that might have been my attempt to push her away, letting her know what she was getting into so to speak. But when you bare your soul and become so naked having someone know all your past mistakes, fears, problems and I’m not just talking about at that time I’m talking about from birth it becomes very spiritually deep. -
Empathy
Life changes love, circumstances change love and everything that runs in and out of your life has the potential to change love. Sure, you fall in love, some by physical attraction and others by a power that extends beyond all of us and sometimes I believe it’s because you just do. Someone is meant for someone it’s been happening for thousands of years and it will still happen for thousands to come.
My love with her has changed me in so many ways and that has come from inspiration that she feeds exuberance, empathy which leaves me sometimes in awe. An inspiration to be better in all realms of your life from being a father, lover to even work – the three main parts of your life really. She has broken my ego barrier, my selfishness but what’s more my inner self. She became my everything and still continues to be my everything.
