MaryHelenMadrid
03-01-2004, 15:08
Dear Ones,
Getting back on the Forums again. I have to show an article I found today. Loss and grief is such a huge part of Critical Incidents. When I see something like this I usually grab it.
Remember the movie, RUSH. That movie's song (Tears in Heaven)won big awards for Eric Clapton. THAT film had alot to say about stress and grief and critical incidents, too.
This has been a trail of self-debrief in a public kind of way for Mr Clapton:
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Clapton Puts 'Tears in Heaven' to Rest
(AP, 03/01/2004 2:14 PM) (From Yahoo! Launchcast Plus)
Two of Eric Clapton 's best-known songs are gone from his concert repertoire — perhaps for good.
The guitar legend found, during a series of concerts in Japan a few months ago, that he couldn't perform "Tears in Heaven" and "My Father's Eyes."
The songs, both Grammy Award winners, deal with the loss of his 4-year-old son, Conor, who died when he fell from a New York apartment in 1991.
"I didn't feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs," he said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"I really have to connect with the feelings that were there when I wrote them," he said. "They're kind of gone and I really don't want them to come back, particularly. My life is a different life now."
He said he'd feel conflicted to sing the songs at a time when he's happy.
"They probably need a rest," he said, "and maybe I'll introduce them from a much more detached point of view."
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I thought this was pretty impressive. Sometimes we postpone our grief till its ok to take it up again. THIS is why we can be still hurt so bad when we react to something YEARS after the fact!
The little boy fell from the 38th floor (I think it was, very traumatic---it was way up there) witnessed by the nanny-maid.
I wonder what happened to her?
+Mary Helen
Getting back on the Forums again. I have to show an article I found today. Loss and grief is such a huge part of Critical Incidents. When I see something like this I usually grab it.
Remember the movie, RUSH. That movie's song (Tears in Heaven)won big awards for Eric Clapton. THAT film had alot to say about stress and grief and critical incidents, too.
This has been a trail of self-debrief in a public kind of way for Mr Clapton:
==============================================
Clapton Puts 'Tears in Heaven' to Rest
(AP, 03/01/2004 2:14 PM) (From Yahoo! Launchcast Plus)
Two of Eric Clapton 's best-known songs are gone from his concert repertoire — perhaps for good.
The guitar legend found, during a series of concerts in Japan a few months ago, that he couldn't perform "Tears in Heaven" and "My Father's Eyes."
The songs, both Grammy Award winners, deal with the loss of his 4-year-old son, Conor, who died when he fell from a New York apartment in 1991.
"I didn't feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs," he said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"I really have to connect with the feelings that were there when I wrote them," he said. "They're kind of gone and I really don't want them to come back, particularly. My life is a different life now."
He said he'd feel conflicted to sing the songs at a time when he's happy.
"They probably need a rest," he said, "and maybe I'll introduce them from a much more detached point of view."
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I thought this was pretty impressive. Sometimes we postpone our grief till its ok to take it up again. THIS is why we can be still hurt so bad when we react to something YEARS after the fact!
The little boy fell from the 38th floor (I think it was, very traumatic---it was way up there) witnessed by the nanny-maid.
I wonder what happened to her?
+Mary Helen