Michele Bourdeau was 81 when she died Sunday, July 26. Explaining my relationship to her is either very simple or very complicated. But dusty today ... She was married to my brother for seven months. Then he died. Now, fifty-eight years later, she has died. I have been going through emails I had from her [...]
Category: death
A very manly Heaven? End of year thoughts
I've been thinking about parts of the Divine Comedy recently. My brain circles past various topics over time, checking in and moving on. Without going back to read it, I started thinking about Dante's picture of Paradise. He begins with a scientific discussion about the composition of the moon. (This was a hot topic in [...]
Obituary for a friend from Mass
... Call me and bid me come to you ... I wrote about that prayer a few weeks ago.** It became important again Sunday. I’m going to a funeral this morning. A lady I’ll call ‘Marion’ died last week. She was ninety-nine years old. Her daughter stopped me in the communion line Sunday morning to [...]