BEARSOUL...A SOUL ODYSSEY

LOOKING BACK.......'SOUL-MUSIC' HAD BEEN THE SOUNDTRACK TO HIS LIFE....THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE DOWNRIGHT FUNKY.....IT HAD HELPED FUEL THE HIGHS AND HAD CREPT INTO THE FURTHEST RECESSES OF HIS DARKEST MOMENTS AND SLOWLY BUT SURELY PULLED HIM BACK, IT WAS WOVEN LIKE A THREAD THROUGH HIS VERY BEING AND AT TIMES THAT THREAD HAD PROVED A LIFE-LINE.

FORGET DOPE.....THIS ADDICTION WAS INCURABLE AND HIS LOVE INVIOLABLE......'HUSH NOW CHILD AND DONT YA CRY....YOUR FOLKS MIGHT UNDERSTAND YOU BY'N'BY'................

IT SEEMED THAT SOMETIMES HIS WHOLE LIFE REVOLVED AROUND 'SOUL-MUSIC'.....WHO WAS HE KIDDING ............IT DID !

NEARLY EVERY CONVERSATION REVOLVED AROUND IT OR SOMEHOW DRIFTED TOWARDS THE SUBJECT. ALL WEEK WAS SPENT GETTING READY FOR THE WEEKEND EVERYTHING WAS GEARED TOWARDS THE MINUTE HE'D HEAR THAT BEAT THEN AFTER A FEW QUICK HELLOS HE'D HIT THE FLOOR AND BE LOST IN A DREAM, LIVING THE TALES OF DESPAIR AND UNREQUITED LOVE, SURELY THESE WERE FOLK SONGS...YEAH MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE, HIS HANDS AND FEET WOVE INTRICATE ALMOST DELICATE LOVING MOVEMENTS TO THE BEAT...THIS WAS HIS LIFE.....WHEN HE WAS DANCING HE FORGOT ALL HIS TROUBLES HE COMMUNED WITH A HIGHER POWER HE SLIPPED ONTO ANOTHER PLANE........THIS WAS HIS VERY REASON FOR BEING.....................THE VERY ESSENCE OF HIS EXISTENCE.......HIS SOUL !!!!