Seriously.

Dear John Mayer:

I have seriously spiritually bonded with my "Where the Light Is" C.D. set. These discs live in Slot 1 and Slot 2 in my car's 6 CD changer. Now, I try to listen to other CDs, but I keep going back to WTLI. I used to have Battle Studies in Slot 3. Right now, the new Clapton lives there. Okay, today I put Battle Studies back in Slot 4 (had to kick out Nirvana).

Anyways, back to the point of our story . . . When I have a bad day (which is often, lately), I go to Slot 1 with Disc 1 of WTLI. Either I go all the way with both disks, starting with acoustic Neon (amazing and awesome hammer-ons), or I head straight to the BLUES.

For maximum joy, I hit the button and forward to Track 6 for "Everyday I Have the Blues," which rocks me home down the 10 Freeway. I sing at the top of my lungs with the music turned up full blast. Sometimes I am your backup singer, sometimes I am you. Sometimes I play air guitar, and many times, I dance. Always, my soul is revived . . . by an old friend . . . rockin' the hell out of that Fender or Gibson.

I lost my daughter this past year. No, not lost to death. I lost her to a boyfriend and teenage angst and rebellion. She did not tell me she was leaving. She does not speak to me. She blocked me from facebook, twitter and her cell phone. She did not come home for Christmas. She lives a few hundred feet away with some family I never met that has a daughter that would never look me in the eyes. The boyfriend would also never look me in the eyes. My only child has completely abandoned me as annoyingly parental after 18-1/2 years of blood, sweat, tears, love and devotion for some guy she met last year. Yeah. All I feel now is grief and lost and hurt and confusion. No one understands. Everyone says “later” will be better. All their words are trite. I am alone with my dog, and learning not to share my pain.

But MAN, when I play the Blues Trio section of Where the Light Is, I try to believe "Good Love is on the Way. I re-live the moment when you played that.

You see, I was THERE that night when the music and video were recorded at Nokia. Or I should say we were there. My daughter turned me on to Continuum about then. What a great surprise -- three shows in one, and three shows that I would never forget, and I still re-live today in my car. I saw you twice in 2010 at Staples and Hollywood Bowl. Awesome energy both places, but we will never approach the phenom that was December 8, 2007. We will move on, we will live life, but man . . . just keep me where the light is.

Love always,

Geri

P.S. Can’t wait for the next album and tour.