Monday, February 27, 2012

Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Freude!

Saturday at Carl's funeral we sang Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" as the closing hymn. Beethoven was Carl's favorite composer, Carl's son Chris played the organ powerfully and beautifully, and the 300 or so attendees sang with heartfelt tunefulness. Could there be a better song to celebrate life? The wonder of uplifting sound continues to reverberate in me. We mourn alone and together and many there present will remember Carl and his life to the end of their own lives. At the burial site we stood together as the bitter wind blew with fierce power.

Warm and sunny today with a full bloom of crocuses and other spring bulbs too tall to deny. Another day of the world without Carl in it, tomorrow will be seven of them. I am fixing broiled flounder, broccoli salad and buttermilk biscuits for supper.

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