Today is absolutely gorgeous. Eighty-two degrees and not a cloud in the sky. It’s days like these that remind me to be grateful for the simple pleasures like not having to endure 98 degrees and 3,000% humidity. Of course, even under those circumstances, I lovingly caress my keratin-treated tresses repeating, “You can suck it, demon moisture. No more bad hair days for moi.” You guys know how happy I am to have discovered my at-home keratin treatments and Chaga mushroom face products. Those and my new coffee travel mug have brought me such joy recently.
So, I’m sitting outside, working on my laptop, watching for hawks in the corner of my eye lest any of them start circling Bella. If she gets nabbed, I guess the whole “grateful for the simple pleasures” thing will get kicked to the curb, but I hold out hope that she’ll be fine.
Quick announcement: Saturday at 11:00 AM CT Jamie, Erik and I will be on the show, Personal Empowerment for a full 90 minutes. Join in on the fun and see if Erik pranks or teases the hosts, Jean Maurie and Maggiemoon! I’ll announce this again tomorrow. Click HERE for the link.
Now for Part Two of the Sonny Bono interview.
Sonny: I love my children.
Me: Aw.
Jamie: Child-ren. He’s telling me that he has (unintelligible either 3 or 4.)
Me: I don’t know. I’ll have to check. Well, I don’t have to check; I’ll just take your word for it. Now, was it your destiny to die when and how you did?
Sonny: I wouldn’t have consciously known that. Someone had to come and tell me that.
Me: Oh.
Sonny: I couldn’t be more grateful that it was a fast transition because everyone around me knew that I didn’t want to have a slow death. I spent a lot of my life trying to get away from pain, and one of my fears was that I would have to face it through a long suffering death.
Me: Aw, I’m so glad you didn’t.
Erik (to Sonny): Didn’t you used to do drugs?
Sonny: I did. I used drugs to get away from the pain of daily life.
Me: Oh, yeah.
Jamie: M. M name. Not meth.
Me: MDMA like ecstasy? MSNBC, no I don’t know!
Jamie giggles.
Me: Marijuana!
Sonny (laughing): Everybody did that!
Me: Oh, okay.
Jamie: Morphine?
Me: Morphine! Oh, wow! Okay.
Jamie: How do you say it again?
Me: Morphine.
Jamie: It’s just two syllables?
Me: Yeah, morphine. Is it something else, maybe?
Jamie: Cuz the way he says it, it kind of sounds like three, like moraphine.
Me: Moraphine. Aw, okay. So, why was it your destiny, then, Sweetie?
Sonny: You know, I think we all have an expiration date, and what was more valuable to me was to leave a greater impact on the world, my work, the safety of the people, the rules that I was trying to implement, and the ideals I was trying to protect. Often, we can stay in our own way. We think we’re doing our best work for ourselves and for the people around us in our environment, when really we’re getting in our own way and we’re stopping ourselves from progressing. If you can just leave, then people value the work that you’ve done and take it to the next level. If I was still there, it would not have gone to the next level.
Me: Well, they might have just concentrated on your personal life instead of your work, which is very often the case nowadays.
Sonny: Exactly! When did politics become personal!
Me: Yes! You were a politician as well. What do you think of the state of the world, now?
Erik (laughing): Politics started becoming personal when movie stars started becoming politicians!
Sonny laughs.
Me; Exactly!
Sonny: Good one! Well, I think I can do more work here to help the state of the world, and that is what I’m focused on.
Me: So, that’s your work there. Great! Can you describe what your afterlife looks like? We know what you do—your life’s work there—but what does it look like? Do you live in house?
Jamie: He’ll tell you, but he was just saying that you don’t even have to finish school to make a difference in the world.
Erik: That’s the dropout!
He had mentioned that this would be the day of the dropouts.
Me: Oh!
Erik: I wanted to talk to people who passed away that dropped out of school.
Me: And if we talk to McKenna next, we’ll be talking to someone who drops acid! So, tell me, Sonny, what about your afterlife?
Jamie: He’s really good about remembering the questions and staying on task. He’s a really good interviewer or speaker. He’ll just bring it right back around and go over it.
Sonny: My environment where I am now consists mostly of being—
Jamie (to Sonny): So, you’re not trapped, that’s just the word you’re using? Okay.
Sonny:—being trapped in the human room and then conferences and meetings in different government levels of the United States and through Europe.
Me: Mm!
Sonny: But I’m not really trapped. I choose to be there. There’s just so many that if you are in spirit and you’re trying to follow through with one ideal, one law, one motion, you need to be at every meeting to see who are the people who are influencing it the most, and then that is who you choose to work with.
Erik: So, it sounds like you switched more to a political world than an entertainment world.
Sonny: Yes.
Me: Well, there’s a little bit of bleed-through on that one! A lot of politicians are great actors!
Jamie (laughing, to Sony): She got you!
Me: They have to be! So, what insight did you gain, given your new perspective in the afterlife?
Sonny: There are a lot of dummies in the human race.
Me: I know. I’m one of them sometimes. I can vouch for that.
Sonny: I don’t necessarily think that I would put that label on you. You’re searching for the greater cause and not searching the rule or definition of it to put with it. Those are the dummies.
Me: Oh, okay. You’re such a brilliant man! Were you here to learn anything?
Sonny: I know I was here to learn commitment and love. I found it many times!
I laugh hard at the fact that he found commitment several times.
Sonny: I couldn’t keep a commitment.
Me: Oh, that’s so funny. What about to teach? Were you here to teach anything?
Sonny: Yes.
Me: That’s probably the biggest part.
Sonny: Yes, that was my greatest passion. It’s what drove me to continue working and continue living.
Me: Oh, good. And what were you here to teach?
Sonny: I’m here to teach the dummies.
Jamie laughs.
Jamie: He quickly gives me this flash image in my head of one of those yellow books.
Me: Oh, yeah. Something or Other for Dummies.
Jamie: Yeah, The Afterlife for Dummies.
Me: Maybe we’ll have to steal that title when we write our book! So what were you here to teach—if you had to –
Sonny: I’m here to teach the people who are living about the quality of the afterlife so that they would change who they were or are while they’re alive.
Stay tuned for the final part tomorrow, guys!
Sonny looking so happy!
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