tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87698819288774054002024-03-05T19:46:45.442+01:00Sunset IntersectionE. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.comBlogger332125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-15357724195345486712022-01-03T17:33:00.000+01:002022-01-03T17:33:16.473+01:00Too much death. Stop.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4iwmfMXYGz0u-7acrIev4RDQHpHI6CNiIdMcpLtUk0iARyuPpxfBViNBa79vYDgnmF59Z1NQ_aoDJwDEnF5N7NBkT6CZQpyuEMXm0Rp-NoPscdL2vXp1xfnwQ32-nDtXxB8yfqUKZ3aj9xGvOIyZp9Ay491y_QoQSlNN-k12HV3zrLWVK7pb7ec1luQ=s1807" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1807" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4iwmfMXYGz0u-7acrIev4RDQHpHI6CNiIdMcpLtUk0iARyuPpxfBViNBa79vYDgnmF59Z1NQ_aoDJwDEnF5N7NBkT6CZQpyuEMXm0Rp-NoPscdL2vXp1xfnwQ32-nDtXxB8yfqUKZ3aj9xGvOIyZp9Ay491y_QoQSlNN-k12HV3zrLWVK7pb7ec1luQ=w133-h200" width="133" /></a></div><br /> Around this time, I usually post a list of muscians, writers and others that have died during the past year. This time around I just can't do it. It's all too much. I'm emotionally exhausted from the pandemic (on the rise after 2 years) and the climate crisis (my brother's house is Louisville, CO, is okay, by the way, but many of his friends and neighbors lost everything) and the political crisis (will democracy survive? I think so, but I'm not sure.) And a million other things, at home and far away, that weigh on my mind. And then the list of dead people who were important to my life in some way. Too many. Enough.<p></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-36320096491784371372021-06-25T11:36:00.003+02:002021-06-25T11:37:55.168+02:00Our Real Work by Wendell Berry<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFgTa9KGHSCQlBnJ2heBahvMCQSZepCi7cnQmnUcZz93DB0VDO6IZV11t0vpobXJtya9H-oPKvvZP2mVP5F8AvL738CSpBWK6_BHY0s2K-j7jEfm2fUv_qpZOSDbN3vk92Pdwgs5YV5yO/s952/1__t2t0ZDvD-w12kAv4x-D3g.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="952" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFgTa9KGHSCQlBnJ2heBahvMCQSZepCi7cnQmnUcZz93DB0VDO6IZV11t0vpobXJtya9H-oPKvvZP2mVP5F8AvL738CSpBWK6_BHY0s2K-j7jEfm2fUv_qpZOSDbN3vk92Pdwgs5YV5yO/w320-h162/1__t2t0ZDvD-w12kAv4x-D3g.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Our Real Work</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wendell Berry</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It may be that when we no longer know what to do</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">we have come to our real work</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and that when we no longer know which way to go</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">we have come to our real journey.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The mind that is not baffled is not employed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The impeded stream is the one that sings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-55613411115912949482021-05-18T08:28:00.000+02:002021-05-18T08:28:24.225+02:00What They're Saying About Exile's Choice:<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWiuSGBEt4w0UOZoz__0o8gzCPVsM1w4LjCSEmN9z46iF_XaBLbHtj4K4PTcRWNCeQqlAzPZ0Bfk1U0VfW6x4vRAIpatAfydqmqJ3EK8OB13Gx11EQuE1JY4rwvWp6DJSKjvx2kGJSdWK/s2048/pedersen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWiuSGBEt4w0UOZoz__0o8gzCPVsM1w4LjCSEmN9z46iF_XaBLbHtj4K4PTcRWNCeQqlAzPZ0Bfk1U0VfW6x4vRAIpatAfydqmqJ3EK8OB13Gx11EQuE1JY4rwvWp6DJSKjvx2kGJSdWK/w400-h300/pedersen.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"In a time when more of us than ever know what it feels like to experience an impossible distance from our own normal lives, this collection provides a nostalgia for a familiar former life with the joyful normalcy of growing at home within a new country. Pedersen explores the merging of cultures and memory through every-day experiences: the sharing of meals, memories of childhood moments that feel as alive today as they did then, the introspection and bargaining that comes with grieving the loss of a dear friend our own age. Pedersen captures these moments like snapshots, allowing us to travel with him through the touching, simple moments and memories that make up a life."</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Elli Sandis</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"Pedersen's choice speaks to us essentially of a common experience, a state of exile that manifests itself in many ways, from one place to another, from one age to another, from one human encounter to another, even from one self to another self. His exile confirms the almost-physical residency of a poetic voice in whatever country/language he migrates to, with verses of rare lyrical quality and effective communication, through the idyll and the epos, memory and self-analysis, blues and irony, by which readers feel not merely involved but recognizable in their own movement through their inner lives. That's the choice that chooses us."</span></i></p><p>Enrico De Lea</p><p><br /></p><p><i style="font-size: large;">"This collection of selected poems highlights Martin Pedersen's gift for keen observation and quirky description of the ordinary and the poignant. Writing on a boundary, with one leg in Sicily and the other in California, Martin Pedersen watches relationships as they unfurl and then takes a photo of a moment, capturing it with a phrase, and inviting us to see and feel something new. These poems/stories/life encounters are so vividly expressed that they will linger with you once you're finished with them, simply because they're not finished with you."</i></p><p>Mike Bausch</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to all three for the wonderful reviews. </p><p>To order <i>Exile's Choice</i> go to: Amazon, Kelsay Books or write me at martinpedersen1255@gmail.com</p></div>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-46495220540654370422021-04-06T08:17:00.003+02:002021-04-06T08:17:51.988+02:00Shameless Self-Promotion Again<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgHocJ33_qAuUGmeg8QbCHHgxtDT04qa1wAWYuXdI4KzF5MSVBVdAC5mfVQfhrDZ9YSwsr5VrIhiRDg_njwOwJCTyfTo0fs8n2TRB9bQH-rx4V-LzlYmIs7w4y1Cl2UClPmw6fXFnYLs/s2048/pedersen_front.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgHocJ33_qAuUGmeg8QbCHHgxtDT04qa1wAWYuXdI4KzF5MSVBVdAC5mfVQfhrDZ9YSwsr5VrIhiRDg_njwOwJCTyfTo0fs8n2TRB9bQH-rx4V-LzlYmIs7w4y1Cl2UClPmw6fXFnYLs/s320/pedersen_front.jpg" /></a></div><p><br />The Big One being my latest book of poetry: <i><b>Exile's Choice</b></i>. I published two small books of small poems recently, and I hope you liked them or will like them, but now here is my super-sized, loaded, extra-large book of recent published poetry. Actually, it's a chapbook, so it's not as big as the collection which should be coming out later this year, but I'm excited and thrilled to have this already available in a beautiful edition by Kelsay Books. The people I worked with there, Karen Kelsay and Delisa Hargrove, were very friendly and professional.</p><p></p><p>I got another big boost from some friends who were willing to write blurbs for the back cover or <b><i>Exile's Choice.</i></b> I'll print them for you in another post. Elli Sandis, Enrico De Lea and Mike Bausch are all great writers and did me a huge favor. I owe them tacos.</p><p><b><i>Exile's Choice</i></b> is a group of poems obliquely centered around my experience as an ex-pat. I've lived in Sicily for over 40 years and have always planned to return to California. Now that plan is on hold, and since I moved to a small house near the beach with the birdsong, the rolling breakers, and a garden to tend, I might not return to the city, here or there. We'll see.</p><p>As I said in the introduction to <b><i>Exile's Choice:</i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>They say that the difference between exile and expatriation is the choice. When I came to Sicily in 1979 and stayed and stayed until today, that was my choice, right? Or did the island choose me? Between Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens sing: run from/run to, familiar/strange, stay/leave, shoobie doobie. So, when living out of the red backpack lost its charm, I easily slid into a family-home-job so cozy that return became impractical, undesirable, near impossible. In a sense, I exiled myself. The choice I made made me.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"To go native" -- is that the passage from ex-pat to exile? Am I denying my daily decision, imagining myself a victim of fate, the starry-eyed wanderer who can't find his way home? I don't know. The expression I hear most often from the locals here in Messina is: 'why don't you go back?' Back? Back in time, you mean? The San Francisco of my youth no longer exists. Neither do I as I left it.</i></span></p><div><span lang="EN-US">I hope you will buy this book. Not because I receive any monetary reward but because I want as many people as possible to read it. It's cheap. Buy some copies for your friends too. It's a young book by a young poet just learning to ride a bike. Push me along those first meters, and I'll wave and smile later when I come around the block smoothly cruising by. Thank you.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">Martin</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">Go to the Amazon or Kelsay Books (.com) or write directly to me and I'll sign your copy (martinpedersen1255@gmail.com). </span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-45585629419982868492021-03-22T08:33:00.000+01:002021-03-22T08:33:01.634+01:00Mourning # 30<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8OogSXe9wzfgbhCzk19dV60l3vkb4W1gr6uGnVBr56pQJUfFCGKXaY8rZacP7mO-gAmo9MhgR8YtHVlOQfUnBpD5_vCEgmvmmUsBp8KXbd5pf9yqezWjPGmmi34JjwQ4aQbPnG5JagwRZ/s315/mourning.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8OogSXe9wzfgbhCzk19dV60l3vkb4W1gr6uGnVBr56pQJUfFCGKXaY8rZacP7mO-gAmo9MhgR8YtHVlOQfUnBpD5_vCEgmvmmUsBp8KXbd5pf9yqezWjPGmmi34JjwQ4aQbPnG5JagwRZ/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 30<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I mourn the people I know and the people<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I don’t know, the people I care about<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and those I don’t give a damn about<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">this death is not legitimate death<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">it is a cheating death, that creeps up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and takes the strong and bold, the best<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of us: doctors teachers nurses preachers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">whole families gone in a cyclone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">flying bodies like loose plastic bags risen up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">into the atmosphere. I mourn you all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the grandparents aunts uncles cousins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">fathers mothers brothers sisters friends<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">all whose time had come, most who were<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">not given a chance to complete their<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">self-actualization, their journey. It is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">so sad. And it’s not over yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Dr. Rebecca Shadowen, infectious disease<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">specialist in Bowling Green Kentucky used to tell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">everyone: “This isn’t politics, this is science.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Dr. Shadowen was hospitalized with SARS CoV-2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">for four months before she succumbed. On Face-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">book she wrote: “If you could save the life of another<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">person without harming your own, would you?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Dr. Shadowen advocated for mask-wearing and social<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">distancing, hand-washing from the beginning, hoping<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Bowling Green would be a model for the rest of KY.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Dr. Shadowen was working as a member of the Bowling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Green-Warren County Coronavirus Workgroup when<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">she became ill. Her husband, David, took her to the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">hospital because she was having trouble breathing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">for four months she was on and off ventilators, in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and out of ICU, when she was lucid she worked from<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">her hospital bed, sharing what she was experiencing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">several times she seemed to be recovering, thought <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">David Shadowen, also a doctor. Rebecca Shadowen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">died on September 11<sup>th</sup> surrounded by her husband<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and two adult children. She was 62.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">David and Rebecca were college sweethearts in the 1970’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">they decided to go into medicine together and specialize in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">infectious diseases. She worked at the Medical Center at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Bowling Green for 30 years and mentored many students<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and residents. After she became sick she begged the county<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">authorities to adopt a local mask ordinance without success.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">After her death the governor tweeted that Dr. Shadowen was,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“a front line hero.” She had probably contracted covid from<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a home health aide that infected her mother, her husband and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">her daughter. Her son Jesse tested negative. Before she got<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">sick, Rebecca Shadowen, went into the empty Broadway United<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Methodist Church to pray. She was aware of the risks and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">responsibilities of health care workers. At the memorial service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">former patients said: “I am alive today because she saved my life.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Her daughter Kathryn remembered that when they went out<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">around town together people would stop her mother to thank her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“It was really powerful to be the kid of someone who saved people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">A lot of kids think of their parents as heroes. Mine actually was.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">END OF THE MOURNING POEMS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">NOT OF THE MOURNING</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-27485454755091997262021-03-21T09:05:00.000+01:002021-03-21T09:05:38.655+01:00Mourning # 29<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidu6pNnE4r8eNLtj_FqyS5wt5uxP0CFqMEANjc3soqhiZEkqVZ29NkzS6_8t2N_h8Lle4H_6M_ByVsujESETESK5dRz1AtkESr3u6xrWnvykjqgD3qSPuI9FYo8dATRzvIun9gQv1atcr/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidu6pNnE4r8eNLtj_FqyS5wt5uxP0CFqMEANjc3soqhiZEkqVZ29NkzS6_8t2N_h8Lle4H_6M_ByVsujESETESK5dRz1AtkESr3u6xrWnvykjqgD3qSPuI9FYo8dATRzvIun9gQv1atcr/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 29<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I’m so sorry you’re gone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">not sure how we carry on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I wasn’t there when you passed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">because we were governed by a psychopath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">when history tallies all the sums<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">we will realize what we have done<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the dead will still be dead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the living filled with regret<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I’m so sorry you’re gone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">not sure how we carry on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Art and music, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">art and music teacher, Melinda <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Roellig, 37, of Clarksville, Indiana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">homemade Christmas gifts for family prepared<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">including her own paintings, personalized<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"she put her heart into it and it just makes you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">smile because you know how much she cares"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">now will they be opened, will they be loved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Melinda died one week after getting a fever<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">without telling her relatives, her mother a nurse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">when she checked on Melinda she called 911<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Melinda died in the ambulance, she feared her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">insurance wouldn’t pay, instead when others fell <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">sick she’d take care of them, she had perfect <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">pitch sang as a kid, played in the marching band<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">trumpet and painting at University of Louisville<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">she loved Harry Potter, got a Master’s degree<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">taught music at public school and art at the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">charter school, her students adored her, she<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">taught choir after school, former student Carey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Walls said: She changed my life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Melinda Roellig, art and music teacher, is survived<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">by her mother, stepfather, step-siblings, father, step-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">mother, half-sister, brother, two nieces. And her art and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">music students, whatever they wind up doing with that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Art and music.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-50231183785804356892021-03-20T08:32:00.000+01:002021-03-20T08:32:48.893+01:00Mourning # 28<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7Np7oYglOAd-xJYNccs3gvvhmeqo58regjOkj2rRGKxWl_5O06UmVHdsHmNHo4FbecCzPCiYEwsfICi1wltbv26acP2QGQxRi9OHKUBYrVJbG_p8F93e2P32-H0TemkJ1RWZtbL8IFAZ/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7Np7oYglOAd-xJYNccs3gvvhmeqo58regjOkj2rRGKxWl_5O06UmVHdsHmNHo4FbecCzPCiYEwsfICi1wltbv26acP2QGQxRi9OHKUBYrVJbG_p8F93e2P32-H0TemkJ1RWZtbL8IFAZ/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 28<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The gulls and crows had picked<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the kitten’s head and guts out<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">it lay soaking wet in the road<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">on our evening walk we turned away<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">when we saw how dead it was<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">that it was a mess, a kitten no more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">one tiny soul like a puff gone on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in the seabreeze in January<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">during the worst pandemic we’ll ever see<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">two million souls and rising<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">collecting the puffs together would create<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a permanent fog we’d live in the rest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the foggy rest of our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Carole Brookins, 76, a financial consultant from<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Palm Beach, Florida died of the novel coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Her firm, Public Capital Advisors, was only one of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Carole’s many activities. She founded First Alliance <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Foundation to bring together US and French military <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">leaders. She had just returned from Paris, her favorite <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">city, when she became ill. Carole Brookins was a member <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a former <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Wall Street executive and director of the World Bank during<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the George W. Bush administration. One of her passions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">was to help developing countries build infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">because, “if you don’t have roads you can’t get to the health<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">care center.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Carole Brookins had no family, but many close friends. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">She had, “amazing enthusiasm for people, places<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and issues.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-91199920297181271232021-03-19T08:09:00.000+01:002021-03-19T08:09:40.506+01:00Mourning # 27<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hKpv5tnaDwa2EGbK-O_ulgPY_bIySVGVV-KQFigrG9TavYmkOdQS_P2CTVng-Jh91tOydyFUSprfL1BsIAYa_63Xnd-ZfwE-ReuSwvqhZq3zyycK1Gg6lNgVcdAFQ3pt6OzuZ_j_GYF4/s315/mourning.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hKpv5tnaDwa2EGbK-O_ulgPY_bIySVGVV-KQFigrG9TavYmkOdQS_P2CTVng-Jh91tOydyFUSprfL1BsIAYa_63Xnd-ZfwE-ReuSwvqhZq3zyycK1Gg6lNgVcdAFQ3pt6OzuZ_j_GYF4/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 27<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Spirit woman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">dressed all in red<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Spirit woman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">collecting the dead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I beg you to leave me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I beg you not to set me free<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">life is a gift</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">though </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I don’t let it show</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">give me another breath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I’ll tell you when I’m ready<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to go<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">with you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">into a new dimension<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Spirit woman.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Fire chief of Ludlow, Vermont,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Robert Kirkbride served as an infantry-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">man in WWII and a military policeman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in the Korean War. He was a police<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">officer in Burlington, Vermont, then he<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">served for 60 years as a firefighter and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">fire chief in Ludlow. He was 93.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">He still drove his own car and mowed his<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">own lawn and appeared in full uniform in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the annual Memorial Day Parade.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Last year his wife of 67 years died, and then<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">his son of 56 died suddenly as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In March 2020 Chief Kirkbride developed <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">bronchitis and was admitted to White River <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Medical Center where he died two weeks <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">later. No funeral could be held; the family <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">is hoping to hold a memorial for Robert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Kirkbride when possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-32066333861551025062021-03-18T07:09:00.000+01:002021-03-18T07:09:22.561+01:00Mourning # 26<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOvxFh6KJVhtpzimu9lteWU6FWBNFIa3hOIyYzMWLTsU58F-g1uY_t398tSKBOI8LYtT_F6i7KQfboIADDTH05N8StPXw2HAE0iKJFA4IXmW1Cuwb4NNlSIMhiH0af6rArzEGt0PicBvr/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOvxFh6KJVhtpzimu9lteWU6FWBNFIa3hOIyYzMWLTsU58F-g1uY_t398tSKBOI8LYtT_F6i7KQfboIADDTH05N8StPXw2HAE0iKJFA4IXmW1Cuwb4NNlSIMhiH0af6rArzEGt0PicBvr/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />Mourning # 26</span></b></b></div><b><o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Winter weeds are taking control<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of the territory around the dormant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">flowers, but I can’t be bothered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I lost my father yesterday, and I can’t<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">cry. When I was young he made me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">cry a lot, but now I’m numb, stunned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I got a call from the hospital admin-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">istration asking for disposition, if I<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">had already made arrangements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">They wanted to release the corpse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">It’s raining so hard outside right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Two million people died before old Dad,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">but they were only data. Now the virus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">is solid. Like it’s always been solid to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the doctors and nurses. I could go<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to the hospital, but I can’t see him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">anyway. And it’s still raining.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Gary Young, customer service rep-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">resentative for Lowe’s Hardware from Gilroy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">California, famous for the annual Garlic <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Festival, died of Covid-19 on March 17, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">2020. He was 66.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Gary was a talker, he loved to chat with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">everyone, he loved to make people laugh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">by telling jokes, everyone in town knew and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">liked Gary because he was so garrulous.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The wait staff in restaurants where he ate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">remembered him by name. The customers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">at Lowe’s always got a friendly chat with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Gary Young. He engaged; he made connections;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he created human networks. We need that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Gary seemed too young and too exuberant <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to die. Now everyone who ever knew him feels his<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">loss.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-77888209894709160972021-03-17T19:16:00.000+01:002021-03-17T19:16:56.452+01:00Mourning # 25<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfaHeAYZhv7jTxGl_7d3D-OH-EXX-obs_WEMtDi89LPYRbr8sAQXQQ4m8gluIXpK0FDbvhyElFB79ParHxlPh2_AWlo8BcDlH5bBlPmGElb2iou8V00T_OVmFJr6SodiqrUm5BRvisCL5/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfaHeAYZhv7jTxGl_7d3D-OH-EXX-obs_WEMtDi89LPYRbr8sAQXQQ4m8gluIXpK0FDbvhyElFB79ParHxlPh2_AWlo8BcDlH5bBlPmGElb2iou8V00T_OVmFJr6SodiqrUm5BRvisCL5/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 25<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Driving down to County General<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to see my dear old Ma<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">stopped at a light in the crosswalk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">an ice cream cone on the ground<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I thought that was so sad<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">they honked at me to go<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">an ice cream cone had fallen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">some clumsy kid had lost a cone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I’m staying at Ma’s house while she’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">laid up, wondering if when she’s done<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">could I have her spoon collection<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">whether burial or cremation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">they let me look through the tent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">all we can do is wave<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I’m thankful for the doctors and nurses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and all the people they can save.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Shirley Bannister, 57, and her daughter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Demetria Bannister, 28, died weeks apart in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">South Carolina. Demetria, who died first was<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">an elementary school teacher while Shirley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">was a gerontology nurse for 30 years before<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">becoming head of nursing at Midlands Tech.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Both were described as loving, caring, generous<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">helpers. Demetria was called “a spitting image<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of her mother.” “She loved mentoring kids and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">making learning fun.” She was known at Windsor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Elementary as “Windsor’s Songbird” because she<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">loved singing and organized student productions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Initially she showed no symptoms and followed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">all safety protocols. On Sept. 4 she was admitted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to the hospital and died 3 days later. A double<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">funeral was organized. Dennis Bannister, Shirley’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">husband and Demi’s father called them, “The<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">light of any room.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-55623598066877975382021-03-16T09:50:00.000+01:002021-03-16T09:50:33.923+01:00Mourning # 24<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-by4YsaBWz1azZhOIH73_S0y2GJl5Jzt2KeDR_cCL9waFDgEQr_yumNj7ejN2afke0hyS3pzFYO0wnJb3pfVCn-t1jMPgCxy43bI7rJQvSQlW7WN7_n7GgCjSMCo2fOlt0zwV-krND9qb/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-by4YsaBWz1azZhOIH73_S0y2GJl5Jzt2KeDR_cCL9waFDgEQr_yumNj7ejN2afke0hyS3pzFYO0wnJb3pfVCn-t1jMPgCxy43bI7rJQvSQlW7WN7_n7GgCjSMCo2fOlt0zwV-krND9qb/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />Mourning # 24</span></b></b></div><b><o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">That magpie has a bit of string in its beak<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">guess they’re building a new house, here comes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the missus they’re so elegant in white shirts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and black suits but they sure squawk a lot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">couples create their own dynamics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the magpies mate for life you know, my cat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">is afraid of them but they mean no harm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">magpies like two planes coming into SFO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">here comes one, here comes the other right<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">behind, if you ever went out to Coyote Point to see<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">them you know, maybe that bit of string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I saw was actually a worm – dinner for two<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">with a coupon, magpies are tightwads.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Gerda Garbatzky escaped from Nazi-occupied<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Austria at the start of WWII. The home she fled to in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Birmingham was bombed. Her father, grandmother and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">other relatives were killed by the Nazis. She settled in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">New York. Then she got breast cancer. She survived.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Her grandson, Geoffrey Sorenson, wanted to grieve <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">with his family for Grandma Gerda but he could not<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">because he had COVID too. When he posted an obituary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">online he got thousands of responses. His grandmother, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he said, would have been honored.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Gerda Garbatzky, a retired bookkeeper, was 90 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-82116662580254253742021-03-15T08:55:00.000+01:002021-03-15T08:55:59.665+01:00Mourning # 23<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVInpruKEW84AYAX5sJJU5lBjVaHZFJWKIBAvwfRzlNPUrJp_Vf3qfCtfVGGn393wJkjU1s3fQNN08E_y_8B6kdkPtGYFYQOwcOJSQJttf8AaLsAjwv1E0ywlSfA2S5kyqG__u5wDBR7w/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVInpruKEW84AYAX5sJJU5lBjVaHZFJWKIBAvwfRzlNPUrJp_Vf3qfCtfVGGn393wJkjU1s3fQNN08E_y_8B6kdkPtGYFYQOwcOJSQJttf8AaLsAjwv1E0ywlSfA2S5kyqG__u5wDBR7w/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 23<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">You had muscles, you had flesh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I touched your hair, I felt your breath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">your clothes remain, that mattress stain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">you’re in my heart, in my brain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">you’re all I had left<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">now gone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">We couldn’t hug, we couldn’t kiss<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">what a shame, what horror is this<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">all contagious, it’s outrageous<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">getting victims from all ages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">go on, make a wish<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">be gone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Josephine Schirripa’s son Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">was being treated for coronavirus at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Staten Island University Hospital where<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he is a doctor treating coronavirus patients<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and Michael’s mother, Josephine, aged 90,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">was a coronavirus patient at the same <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">hospital at the same time, but Dr. Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Schirripa did not learn this until just before<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he was to be released. Michael was feeling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">poorly when the nurses wheeled him into<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the hallway to go see his mother. “I touched<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">her knee, she opened her eyes, looked at me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and lipped, ‘You’re OK,’ and I said, ‘Yeah,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I’m OK,’” Michael recalled. “She seemed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">at ease.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Josephine Schirripa, a homemaker from<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">New York, died on April 11, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-72159651670285912912021-03-14T08:13:00.000+01:002021-03-14T08:13:24.916+01:00Mourning # 22<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYA9sq676IEwweQ8N1bAnT-eNI8fk4nP6sO4GA4OwazUu1QJ92PRGpdTytw6lVWjHgGTiELcw-9rMn3ZgoU1Zjfx-3wCzmhzyS4asftSq_LdwCYs0L-qlTsE0trXeqWLH7uYeivH98ZB3e/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYA9sq676IEwweQ8N1bAnT-eNI8fk4nP6sO4GA4OwazUu1QJ92PRGpdTytw6lVWjHgGTiELcw-9rMn3ZgoU1Zjfx-3wCzmhzyS4asftSq_LdwCYs0L-qlTsE0trXeqWLH7uYeivH98ZB3e/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 22<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The monarchs come up from Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and gather in the eucalyptus trees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in Pacific Grove, south of Monterey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">except in the last year the orange and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">black beauties are scarce, 400,000<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">fewer conclave as living leaves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">flutter mate feast celebrate life as they<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">should. 2 million gone – we’re all butter-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">flies here today then away we fly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">yet when I see those nearly naked trees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I cry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Brian R. Miller, 52, went blind at 20<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and nonetheless traveled to 65 countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">He spoke several languages: Spanish German<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and Russian. He earned a Ph.D. in history and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">had limitless knowledge on any subject. Brian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">worked on disability rights for the U.S. Dept.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of Education. His mother said: “Nothing was<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">going to stop him…” After receiving condolences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">from people all over the world, she said: “It’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">overwhelming and really gratifying to know how<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">many people he touched.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">When he died of COVID on April 30, 2020, Brian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Miller was planning to travel with his guide dog<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to Ireland, Mongolia and Ukraine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-67317521185350645622021-03-13T16:49:00.000+01:002021-03-13T16:49:53.709+01:00Mourning # 21<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqjBbzLtFP22s6tDRCg2MVfcmxM-DWrfJsaWSjuAkeas6STgBDHkUa-XOmByLeOWKkXkVrkqRt2sAM6DN4ZIE9JJModkY5LvwDBG1uRulVii43UVtzICasm3kuefFHeJMR_l2uRNHUyz7/s1180/Mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1180" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqjBbzLtFP22s6tDRCg2MVfcmxM-DWrfJsaWSjuAkeas6STgBDHkUa-XOmByLeOWKkXkVrkqRt2sAM6DN4ZIE9JJModkY5LvwDBG1uRulVii43UVtzICasm3kuefFHeJMR_l2uRNHUyz7/w200-h102/Mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 21<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">My beloved daughter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the sun rose with you in the morning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and set with you at night<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">sure, we had our scraps<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">that’s growing up (or not)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">for us both / I never wanted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">anyone but you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">your smile like you had<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a naughty secret, stolen cookie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">whoopee cushion, I loved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">that smile, I love you –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">always. now every day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">living makes no sense<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">why do anything if you’re not here<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">-- maybe it’s best we didn’t get<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to say goodbye, so I will keep you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">alive in my heart, keep you safe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">from this scourge, hold you up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">for all to adore, now and forever<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">as words fail me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">thoughts fail me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">feelings, I don’t know<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">life has failed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Shannon Bennett, 39, was an openly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">gay Florida sheriff’s deputy who died on April 3, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">2020 of COVID-19. Shortly before contracting <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the virus, he had proposed marriage to his fiancé.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">He was a school resource officer at Deerfield<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Beach Elementary. His soulmate, Jonathan Frey,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">described their relationship which began in 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">when they met while volunteering at an LGBTQ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">mental health center and how they got engaged<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">at Disney World last December. Both Frey and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the director of the Florida Police Chiefs Assoc-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">iation, Amy Mercer, described themselves as<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“devastated,” at the loss of Shannon Bennett.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-58284001962693928652021-03-12T09:58:00.000+01:002021-03-12T09:58:19.293+01:00Mourning # 20<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi45nZQyoOTaF4BODSELqGyFpYlWZlAadnUIuarOQMhs0eSFPsCKQwA4oNWXZjUUh7m0zXPgCAHF2d1fPjSVQ1XJ24-cdF0hJdbeFJmx8Gg0jcNwPwTP1WLhJUHtDMAVa7BEokf8-4esUVp/s1180/Mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1180" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi45nZQyoOTaF4BODSELqGyFpYlWZlAadnUIuarOQMhs0eSFPsCKQwA4oNWXZjUUh7m0zXPgCAHF2d1fPjSVQ1XJ24-cdF0hJdbeFJmx8Gg0jcNwPwTP1WLhJUHtDMAVa7BEokf8-4esUVp/w200-h102/Mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 20<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">And now – double lockdown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">we couldn’t go out except for necessities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">now necessities aren’t necessary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">what is? taxes and death?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">is there any more severe measure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">our leaders could adopt? – yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">there is permanent lockdown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">there is never go out ever again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">death-row solitary-confinement life, life-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">not-life – there is no sun underground<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">triple lock down for all, some now<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">some next month, we’re all bound;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">headed there soon, to the land of doom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">that’s banal, but true, the banal truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Alexa Rose Veit, a teenager, 15,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and a cancer survivor from Kentucky and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a special needs individual contracted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">leukemia in 2019. In 2020 she and her mother<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">began experiencing symptoms of the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">coronavirus and both tested positive and were<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">hospitalized. Alexa’s older sister also tested<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">positive as did their grandparents who were<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">hospitalized, also in Nashville. Her mother<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">survived; Alexa did not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Her high school, Ballard Memorial, wrote<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“Our world is a little less bright without Alexa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in it…. We will miss her special kind of mischief,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">her infectious smile, and the laugh that never<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">failed to light up a room.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-73878821576223972552021-03-10T09:35:00.000+01:002021-03-10T09:35:07.694+01:00Mourning # 19<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Hpf5Xbpnc0ZxknlC97EvODtGdGLBccGOaUvg1uQQGSV0eTmCnbdE0scK2S1Ij5tpgpNP4y5xIl5N2GjFfuHlnxpd-V13dm6n_FW22sJsRUy_JjwEY8-ROPdno5dmQAnB2EOzoif36vCk/s1180/Mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1180" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Hpf5Xbpnc0ZxknlC97EvODtGdGLBccGOaUvg1uQQGSV0eTmCnbdE0scK2S1Ij5tpgpNP4y5xIl5N2GjFfuHlnxpd-V13dm6n_FW22sJsRUy_JjwEY8-ROPdno5dmQAnB2EOzoif36vCk/w200-h102/Mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 19<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">All my life I’ve loved God and Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Christ, my personal savior, who<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">protects us always if we renounce sin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I went to church at the invitation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of our Pastor and Praised the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">We sang and prayed and holiness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">reigned. We said Peace Be Unto You<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and hugged and hugged and sang<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and prayed. We knew we were<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">violating the new laws but we proudly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">held to the old higher laws. Confident our faith,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">not demon masks, would protect us. So many <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">sinners out there looking at their inter-net <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and dreaming of riches in this life, but we … we …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- A Michigan couple, Leslie and Patricia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">McWaters, both died from Covid-19 on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">November 24<sup>th</sup>. They had been married for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">47 years. Leslie, known as LD, was a truck<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">driver and a veteran in the US Naval Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Pat was an RN who spent 35 years in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the operating room at Foote Allegiance Hospital<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in Jackson, Michigan, her home town. LD was also<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a Jackson native.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Pat was the boss; LD was the joker, ‘the king<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of one-liners.’ But Pat got the last laugh as her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">daughter, Joanna Sisk, imagined that Pat went<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">first and then said like always, “LD, it’s time to go!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The couple loved dancing at the bar where they met.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">They loved playing cards with their friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">They drove their 1959 Corvette to car shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">They are survived by two daughters and three<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-33090850483340886472021-03-09T09:14:00.003+01:002021-03-09T09:14:51.543+01:00Mourning # 18<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyinAouYgBvJiO4tz55NM2x2XeFkS3NlXJ9vSHsi9HyJqNbt1wcL6mK2jXUiymza6xepTbYbviGpn-IbIsSTA_s3JVqS8yf1AQfUGOW9xk_3CWFKfvJMXcOULsdVTtAM3pWP1FRPhQlfu0/s1180/Mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1180" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyinAouYgBvJiO4tz55NM2x2XeFkS3NlXJ9vSHsi9HyJqNbt1wcL6mK2jXUiymza6xepTbYbviGpn-IbIsSTA_s3JVqS8yf1AQfUGOW9xk_3CWFKfvJMXcOULsdVTtAM3pWP1FRPhQlfu0/w200-h102/Mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 18<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">We could drink this whole bottle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of Mom’s best bourbon, but we’d<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">have to toast with every sip an’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I’m not sure we could think of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">enough good things to say about<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the old bat, and I have to pick up the kids from ballet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">After his divorce like twenty years ago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he lived alone and now he died<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">alone and old with the television on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">when the neighbors called the cops<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">because of the smell. Evidently<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he got sick and just surrendered to the pain and its relief.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The only person that she told was her brother<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">that her job caring for dying COVID patients<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">weighed on her so much that she’d almost <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">rather die, neither took the remark seriously<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">but then she got pneumonia from the virus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and told her brother, just before she went into<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the ICU that she never meant what she’d said<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">she was just tired and depressed and angry at the government.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Every story is a story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Han Sim (Kim) Hildebrand grew up in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a fishing village on the island of Dura-Ri<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in South Korea where she suffered from hunger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in her childhood. She was 4 feet 11 inches tall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">She married an American serviceman and moved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to Missouri. She had to learn English. She knew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">no other Koreans in her new home. Her marriage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">didn’t last. Her second marriage didn’t either.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Then she married Jim Hildebrand, who called her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“the mouse that could fight the lion.” They were<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">married for 32 years until her death from Covid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">They built a thriving vegetable business. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Han Sim seemed to have beaten the coronavirus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">after a two-month hospital stay. She was weaned off<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the ventilator, she was in good spirits, smiling and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">waving. The nurses said, “She’s like a Houdini, we<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">can’t believe how fast she’s come back.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">She was an inspiration and a model of strength<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to her husband and children and everyone else<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">who knew her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-20350330897158590852021-03-08T08:31:00.000+01:002021-03-08T08:31:51.259+01:00Mourning # 17<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNrEzwFrtJoGJ8scr1O_Qc0dhJS0P887joYn6mW0tztAHrJKdHzeWeifIxVfIuA-WbPKPQmQzP23UdiFmZ-zeuLAIdxA0EkB_SdtebC4Jz5DMRxKCDHEsg2-aM4qXgCJUTTxN7KM27Xz-/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNrEzwFrtJoGJ8scr1O_Qc0dhJS0P887joYn6mW0tztAHrJKdHzeWeifIxVfIuA-WbPKPQmQzP23UdiFmZ-zeuLAIdxA0EkB_SdtebC4Jz5DMRxKCDHEsg2-aM4qXgCJUTTxN7KM27Xz-/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 17<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">My face is numb<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I won’t slap it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I cannot smell or taste<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">all white noise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">my eyes dart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I move arms and legs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">like a robot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">that time<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I choked in a restaurant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">that time we<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">made love<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">on a dark night train<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">neither of us<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">could dance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">but we did anyway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in the kitchen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">-- my heart is broken.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">-- my life is over.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">-- I cannot say goodbye.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">-- help me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Dr. Susan Moore, a black physician<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">posted on social media how she was denied<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">pain relief at an Indiana hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">she had to beg for proper medical care and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">was discharged too early. she was outraged<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">because her treatment, as a black woman,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">was inferior. she documented her stay on a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">video recorded from her hospital bed. many<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of her black peers supported her claim of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">unequal treatment based on race.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“… when we find ourselves as patients, we are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">disrespected, devalued & dismissed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Susan Moore, 52, died in Indianapolis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of COVID-19 which she contracted while<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">assisting her own patients.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">A spokesperson for Indiana University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Health North would not comment on Dr. Moore’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">allegations citing privacy concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-41190229981893416142021-03-07T11:58:00.000+01:002021-03-07T11:58:15.050+01:00Mourning # 16<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58aVhYMANMhQNe6xGFXP1bYD8aR9rtzQ4eqP9jlReZl7Qb9WmNLQpWJD35jIJnoQkGrOtLsSrMoe-N4B_TFoZVOrxZQgiEqdTQzZ9NLiwd1iNJN2ol6VVEr_1pTYlTy1S1hR6OfkytMAQ/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58aVhYMANMhQNe6xGFXP1bYD8aR9rtzQ4eqP9jlReZl7Qb9WmNLQpWJD35jIJnoQkGrOtLsSrMoe-N4B_TFoZVOrxZQgiEqdTQzZ9NLiwd1iNJN2ol6VVEr_1pTYlTy1S1hR6OfkytMAQ/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 16<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I do not deserve to live above ground<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">surviving in the blue the green<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">yellow orange and burnt red skies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">touching hard and soft earth with my soles <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and the birdsong!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Burial and cremation, roughly the same<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">either way down to the molten core<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">that black hole that sucks us all in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">very slowly so the world won’t collapse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the birdsong!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">‘Better you than me’ is a song no one<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">should sing, a national anthem played before<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">every shift change at the Covid ward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">my eyes are so tired, my tears are so lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the bird.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- US Republicans have an anti-mask platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">They have called the coronavirus a hoax.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">They hold superspreader events to infect those present<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and anyone they encounter. Many have COVID,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">some have died.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Luke Letlow, 41, was elected to Congress from <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Louisiana in a runoff, he died of the bug before<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he could be sworn into office. He is survived by<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">his wife, Julia Barnhill Letlow and two young children.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">His family released a statement: “The family appreciates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the numerous prayers and support over the past days<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">but asks for privacy during this difficult and unexpected<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">time.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">A special election will be called to fill the seat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-67381362151494779562021-03-06T17:16:00.000+01:002021-03-06T17:16:51.983+01:00Mourning # 15<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eWDK10MVE25qJN8uDNPcP5Gg6h103xklod7wU9kvz2W-4vncfiFV6x7P4jbQXwsCUFERO7fLEnrgLIyDBz7gq8bq4vM2geu_u-1bpD0HrMwqzeAZrwptN6aRthmIuh3zUjxT0wYq1qHx/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eWDK10MVE25qJN8uDNPcP5Gg6h103xklod7wU9kvz2W-4vncfiFV6x7P4jbQXwsCUFERO7fLEnrgLIyDBz7gq8bq4vM2geu_u-1bpD0HrMwqzeAZrwptN6aRthmIuh3zUjxT0wYq1qHx/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 15<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">What would you say if we met<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in the ICU, or at a funeral or wake<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in a parking lot, masked up and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">distanced, I only see your eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and your body under your clothes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">if you were attracted too, equal, 50/50<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the ideal match – let’s have sex<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">have you had a swab or the vaccine?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">have you tested negative in the last 14 days?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">have you been exposed to anyone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">who has COVID even with no symptoms?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">do you now or have you ever had<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">you know, I think I’ll wait<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">for sex love attraction touch anything<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">until this all is all over if ever<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">like Ken and Barbie dolls<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">more valuable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in the original plastic-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">wrapped cardboard boxes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Holly Figueroa O’Reilly writes today:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">My husband has been feeling poorly<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">for a few days and decided to go in<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to be tested for COVID-19. Instead,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">we just found out that he has AML:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">acute myeloid leukemia. Or I should say,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">‘he’ found out. Alone. They won’t let me<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">visit him. Because of COVID-19. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">You probably don’t know my husband <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and for that, I am truly sorry that you haven’t<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">met the best man I’ve ever known. This is<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a guy who opted to work with COVID-19<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">patients in the ICU instead of tele-health<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">because he couldn’t just sit by and watch.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">For months, he spent 12+ hour days in the<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">ICU taking care of COVID19 patients.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">He left his practice (he’s a sleep medicine<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">specialist) in order to volunteer in the ICU<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">because they were short-staffed. He watched<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">people die without their families.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> He held iPads up so families could say<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">goodbye to dying COVID19 patients and watch<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">their family members take their last breaths. He <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">stripped off his scrubs in the garage and showered<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">before coming up to see his family at night,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">if anyone was still awake.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> I could go on and on about how amazing<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he is, but I’m completely broken. Please spare<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a thought for my hubs tonight. He went from <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">thinking he might have COVID to getting a bone<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">marrow biopsy, chemotherapy, and a minimum<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">4-6 week hospital stay within the course of a few<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">hours.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-74229747512040896122021-03-05T08:08:00.002+01:002021-03-05T08:10:49.532+01:00Mourning # 14<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqlopNFCe8Z1-YzhvYDFZptY57AFLJJoE2poVamWR1jT45uDY95srqHQGAxwI46ecVV6y6Y9POqWfqAbWwLqpoMBW-AAehvN0e7khnBvJWTViFtW1X-aU45u2VT-2LaWAcxUlT8bTYBePT/s315/mourning.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqlopNFCe8Z1-YzhvYDFZptY57AFLJJoE2poVamWR1jT45uDY95srqHQGAxwI46ecVV6y6Y9POqWfqAbWwLqpoMBW-AAehvN0e7khnBvJWTViFtW1X-aU45u2VT-2LaWAcxUlT8bTYBePT/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Mourning # 14</b></div><o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Sadness, emotional pain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">D.W. Winnicott believed that sad crying<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">was “the psychological root of valuable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">musical experiences in later life”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">a sad face is indicated by small pupils,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in Spencer’s Faerie Queene sadness is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“a marker of spiritual commitment”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">seasonal affective disorder (SAD) associates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">lack of light to sadness as serotonin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">levels drop. Prolonged sadness can<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">become depression unless it does not. A<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">traumatic event like a break-up or firing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">can cause sadness, as can the loss of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">1,950,000 people (so far) worldwide to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the hungry beast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Erika Becerra, 33, couldn’t wait for the birth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of her second child. She died 18 days after giving birth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">She never got to hold her baby. Erika was healthy,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">had no underlying conditions. Her son, Diego, was born<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">healthy. After the birth Becerra’s oxygen levels dropped<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and she was intubated. She died on December 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">She had had a baby shower in October with her husband<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Diego and young daughter, Erika Guadalupe, but was never<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">able to hold her newborn son, Diego. Erika Becerra, a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">strikingly beautiful woman, was described as “selfless<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and caring.” Her brother told CNN while sobbing, “For her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">other people’s happiness was her happiness.” She could<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">have been infected during a prenatal hospital visit. Death<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">from COVID-19 in pregnant women is considered “uncommon.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">No one else in Erika’s family tested positive for the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">She was 33.<o:p></o:p></span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-12373306397726428392021-03-04T07:56:00.000+01:002021-03-04T07:56:30.694+01:00Mourning # 13<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeO-8Y6Ur61hf7xk_fMqnfcPf2kNoGFAkQ8xKWLTPh9IMDul543P5DJQ_eNeuR0_zIKnN3g2a5VC2w6213S05D4lGxkDxYHhm59ba5Z_In6btIABpFS8yVIHpeK92GUlH_Z-xQ0A30tkfa/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeO-8Y6Ur61hf7xk_fMqnfcPf2kNoGFAkQ8xKWLTPh9IMDul543P5DJQ_eNeuR0_zIKnN3g2a5VC2w6213S05D4lGxkDxYHhm59ba5Z_In6btIABpFS8yVIHpeK92GUlH_Z-xQ0A30tkfa/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></b></div><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br />Mourning # 13<o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Before I slip into the dimension of mist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">so thick I can’t see my arms or legs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">before intubation ventilation compensation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I want to say one last word: not blame<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">or love or regret or stay home or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">mountain top or sunset or rosebud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I know what not but not what<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">surf’s up, rock ‘n roll, peace out<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the name of my first cat, remember that?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I get one chance, why waste it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">sex, money, fame, I want to live …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I want to learn how to fly …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">maybe if I wrote it on my hand …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">if I only had my glasses …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I don’t wear glasses …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Rose Mary Blackwell, 65, and her husband Paul Blackwell, 61, of Grand Prairie, Texas died of the novel coronavirus within minutes of one another holding hands. Holding hands like they had been for 30 years of marriage. They felt ill and missed a family Thanksgiving for the first time. The next day they were hospitalized. Their sons, Shawn and Brandon, remembered their final struggle. “It did give us some sense of closure that they both went together.” They all said goodbye by video chat. Then, at the end, the nurses moved them together so they could hold hands, and they let the sons, Shawn and Brandon, come in in hazmat suits and hold hands with them too after the parents were taken off life-support. Their souls departed together on December 13, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The Blackwells were both educators at the Grand Prairie Independent School District. They were due to retire this year to enjoy their 20 grandchildren. They are mourned by former students and colleagues, and a large number of friends and family. Paul was black; Rose Mary was Hispanic. They died holding hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-36192013354322040452021-03-03T08:06:00.000+01:002021-03-03T08:06:36.494+01:00Mourning # 12<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVKmnTiKgO8mFBOWNxgAl11tTnHC1ZXc9o8GXrthvRCuB-sTTsjWxF0GXUE6ZQ4Rt3qU-95dCQoHtHv1NqrUNgus5gjdF4b6DkoSX-E4jAq-E2paFgDwO6Txot3ckckWq7gATkutU3J0I/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVKmnTiKgO8mFBOWNxgAl11tTnHC1ZXc9o8GXrthvRCuB-sTTsjWxF0GXUE6ZQ4Rt3qU-95dCQoHtHv1NqrUNgus5gjdF4b6DkoSX-E4jAq-E2paFgDwO6Txot3ckckWq7gATkutU3J0I/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 12<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Remember the shopping list as today<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">we’re allowed to go out to a grocery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">write it down, my English teacher<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">used to say, then at home put the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">books back in alphabetical order and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the meds by date of expiration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the dread will still be there<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">there’s no palliative for the black dread<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">hanging with the weight of souls in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">purgatory unable to translocate because<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">they died off-time – part “natural”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">causes, part intentional incompetence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">i.e. murder – one Poirot could never solve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">there is no solving, even shopping is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">no solution, it just must be done.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- John Garvison, 95, had chronic obstructive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">pulmonary disease, a pre-existing condition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">yet after a week in the hospital with COVID symptoms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he had improved enough to go back to his nursing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">home, his son Paul drove him, the next time Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">visited his father he had to wear a full hazmat suit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">his father did not recognize him and died soon after<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">John had worked in social services with adopted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">children in Santa Cruz, California.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The obituary Paul wrote for the local paper began:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“His death was due to neglect of the vulnerable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">by the Trump Administration, which had consistently<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">downplayed the dangers of this terrible disease.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-61828193322999422802021-03-02T08:22:00.000+01:002021-03-02T08:22:15.106+01:00Mourning # 11 <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeoj-rYwoxqLRdGOwdmsVMte_nlJRXc-C_PAeX_Pe7-of-BZrrPGM5kzR-Gcakl0Ot5sgNAZE4GQK_rC-YbgRLyG3N-qdttH_SSfMYKvQFWLsPCmw9HRhs0UZWLyAYKzPBjHc8772WkIOC/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeoj-rYwoxqLRdGOwdmsVMte_nlJRXc-C_PAeX_Pe7-of-BZrrPGM5kzR-Gcakl0Ot5sgNAZE4GQK_rC-YbgRLyG3N-qdttH_SSfMYKvQFWLsPCmw9HRhs0UZWLyAYKzPBjHc8772WkIOC/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 11<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I couldn’t stop crying if I wanted to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">my relief check did not arrive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">our town is in extreme lockdown again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">yet the virus cuts down people like<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">wheat under the reaper’s scythe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">my country’s taken over by madness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">threatening charging good to fight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">we’re already fighting, out of breath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I’m still shoveling mud out of the basement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and the landlord’s kicking me out on the curb<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">since I lost my sweeping job at the gym<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I sit on the carpeted step<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">and get weak, weakened, break down<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">get down, wet-eyed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Pamela Caddell had no funeral, that was the deal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">her husband, Richard, wrote a plea for the newspaper<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“It was her fervent wish that everyone take this horrible<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">disease seriously.” Pamela and Richard met as teenagers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">while she worked as a carhop at a root beer stand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">they married and had a son and a daughter, Pamela <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">worked for many years as a nurse and then as caregiver<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">for her sister Debbie who had lung cancer, Debbie got<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">coronavirus first and died, then Pamela followed her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">she was 71 years old and had been married to Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">for 53 years, he now lives alone with the couple’s elderly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">dog and is having trouble adjusting, “She never took away<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">from people and her greatest satisfaction was helping …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">That’s the type of person Pamela was, and people should<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">know that. And she should not be dead. She should be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">alive.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769881928877405400.post-86047328346351419602021-03-01T07:17:00.000+01:002021-03-01T07:17:27.074+01:00Mourning # 10<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvA4Dr1-fjc89G8QAx5cqj3_g1hw7RrpTrcMf5u1BFFk8eXZHem9jHtF86S9vtoDkpojf-1Q9EEFHyPP0jPg09RhANSCEKxEGHjbgOsAwKE44IM4UxN7Or53b4E5L4iBodVSqtH3p7Elu/s315/mourning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="315" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvA4Dr1-fjc89G8QAx5cqj3_g1hw7RrpTrcMf5u1BFFk8eXZHem9jHtF86S9vtoDkpojf-1Q9EEFHyPP0jPg09RhANSCEKxEGHjbgOsAwKE44IM4UxN7Or53b4E5L4iBodVSqtH3p7Elu/w200-h102/mourning.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br />Mourning # 10<o:p></o:p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Transcending Grief<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">let’s transcend our grief<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">stepping-stone the stages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">move on and forward out of the valley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of a thousand tears – that’s enough<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">don’t make yourself sick over it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">he/she/they would have wanted you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to get on with your life, remarry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">find a new partner at Christmastime<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">online or maybe at a grief therapy group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">hi, I lost my dog<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">hi, I lost 400,000 compatriots<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">let’s go get coffee, then into bed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">to seal our release<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">the end is here (the beginning too).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">---- Rosemary Collins was a choir director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">at her church and at Clearwater High School<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in Florida, she had classical voice training<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">she sang arias and musicals, she loved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">music, she died on December 22 of complications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">of the coronavirus, just a few days after<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">showing her first symptoms, she was 51.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Silence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p>E. Martin Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12957572414419542906noreply@blogger.com0