Dear Mom,
I’m sitting on a train en route to Prague. Outside is the green
of Bavaria colored by the pink plums and yellow forsythia. Easter is on its way
and it was in front of the forsythia bushes in our back yard that we always
took the photo of us dressed up for the occasion. Remember that? Was that why I found myself thinking of you
and looked for the Memorial Service on my laptop to discover that it was this
very day, April 6th, that I lay holding you in your last few hours
with Frank Sinatra playing on the boom box? And then you left. Three years now to the day that I have been orphaned and carrying on without your weekly blessing. But
your lifetime of blessing is a constant companion. Your loyalty to loving me
made its mark and nothing can erase that.
Would you like to hear the news? First and foremost, let me tell
you that I am happy. Of course, miserable about what happened in the last
election and always with my fair share of personal despair, disappointment and
even disgust. But overall, perpetually hopeful and happy and healthy in mind
and body and mostly at peace in my soul. Why? Because I have found the work
that uses all of me, that fits perfectly the way I’m put together, that
constantly without fail repays all energy and effort expended with further
energy. I’m still at school—42 years. Imagine that!—and still mostly happy to
be there. I’m still traveling the world teaching adults and children and how I
love it! I’m always welcomed by people eager for what I can offer and always
bid goodbye with the sense that expectations were exceeded and now I have new
friends, comrades in the quest to better the world. I still like the freshness
of travel, the pleasure of wandering new streets and allies, sauntering into
fields or wandering alongside riverbanks. I’m happy in my hotel-du-jour with my
books, cards and occasional DVD’s.
Well, that’s not much news, but maybe the news you’ll be
happiest to hear. On other fronts, I’m still playing piano at the Jewish Home
three years after you left. Fran left this past November and that still is a
great sadness for me. But Edie and Rudy and Gloria and a few others you knew
are still there, as is Arthur and Barry. Without you there, Ginny and I don’t
see each other as often as before, though she occasionally drops by there and
we stay in touch as we can. Damion is in Italy now, Kyle still working at the
bakery, Ian a father (a son, Ezra) living close to Kerala in Portland. Zadie is
five and Malik getting close to two, Ronnie about to finish his second of three
years at Occupational Therapy School, Kerala continued her heroic work as breadwinner and Super-Mom. Karen
retired from school, Talia’s finishing her 5th year there. I went to
Roselle in November, saw Cookie Boxon briefly and the neighbors. As you know,
our house is gone from a hurricane, but the old garage is still there. Maybe a
forsythia bush in the back yard?
And so life proceeds apace down here and I’m grateful to still
be part of the drama. All of it.
The sound and the fury, the power and the glory, the heaven and
hell of it. So it is on a train to Prague, a compartment like the ones in
Hitchcock movies, Karen knitting across from me, the green of Spring slowly
emerging on bare tree branches and again, the forsythia of resurrection touching
the memory and warming the heart, that I write on the occasion of your passing
to tell you the news and remind you that I remain your perpetually loving
son. -Doug
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