Last Stop This Town
You're dead but the world keeps spinning
Take a spin through the world you left
It's getting dark a little too early
Are you missing the dearly bereft?
I would like to reccomend the album "Electro-Shock Blues" by the Eels. It's amazing, and very applicable to life right now (thus all the quoting of songs from said album. The one in this post is from "Last Stop This Town").
Yet another stunning tribute to our good friend Branden this evening. I was overjoyed at the near-capacity Gantner Hall. Some beautiful words were said. Mark McGinnis gave a wonderful speech, and Dr. Heidel once again was his eloquent self. I also really liked the words Branden's Uncle had to say. It seems like they had a really special relationship.
Once again this evening I had one of those spiritual experiences where I swear there was a presence in the room. While we were playing Holst's First Suite, for a second Branden took the place of Dr. Heidel up on the podium, and he was conducting a band full of his friends on one of his favorite pieces. When the Fraternity was singing, I saw him amongst the group singing with us. And when the entire audience recessed to Amazing Grace, he was walking out the door with us.
I'm gonna fly on down for the last stop to this town
I'm gonna fly on down then fly away on my way...
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The living will never KNOW if there is a higher power ... only the dead KNOW FOR SURE.
But ... once at a wedding, wife # 1 was there to bless his union with wife # 2 ... no physical presence, but most certainly there. Something caused me to look up at her smiling down at the scene.
And ... late one evening while reading in a quiet house with the kids in bed and the wife upstairs, I was jolted into looking up from my book. There on the stair, smiling, together again, were Grandma and Grandpa; him having so recently joined her. And then they were gone. The message was clear: "We are dead, but our life goes on. Believe ... it is a certainty."
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