12/03/01
George Harrison and the Spiritual Spectrum
I’ve found it odd how much the death of George Harrison has affected me. Considering that I wasn’t the world’s biggest teenage Beatles fan until the late 80s and early 90s, I’m notably younger than the generation that grew up with George and for whom his death is a direct reminder of their own aging. If this were the only factor, however, George’s death would be more traumatic for Baby Boomers than was John Lennon’s because John was taken early and unnaturally. George, though young yet, was not a victim of his fame and lived his life through.
This essay has been published in Just Thinking: Volume I, 10/29/01 –10/21/02 and is available in Confidence Place: The Timshel Arts Store.
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