Passings: Sinead O'Connor , 56, Irish creative artist in music dies

Farewell Sinead O'Connor

In a normal world, she'd have passed through without much notice.  But she was a rebel at heart, and yet, she was also seeking something holy and sacred.  Her anger made her enemies, but her compassion thereafter was mistaken for erratic or irrational outbursts. She was someone with a great talent and ability to sing, and write music, and obviously, to express emotions most refuse to acknowledge. 

Her music is something that moves me. I am very wounded by this loss, not for my own listening, I have ways to hear her sing long after she is remembered. But she was someone who constantly chafed at the regulations that are society. Coming from a broken home, having been domestically abused, being popularly as well as critically treated poorly for how she expressed her anger at the church, she was someone who had a very difficult path.

I hope she finds peace now, something she seemed to never have in her life.