It has taken me a month to be able to get a grip on how to record the details of this friend in my life. It was a month ago tonight that I met with a group of sisters to prepare this dear friend to be laid to rest. A sacred experience that cannot be told here. Tomorrow will be a month that her body has been resting in its earthly holding place. Yet I know for a month now her spirit as soarn above the clouds and has been in a place of joy. That is peace.
Take a look at this you tube. If I was more talented I would build a memorial to her. All I can do is video-lift, if you will, one that speaks to me -- of her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVq2khzam2g
10,000 Miles -By Mary Chapin Carpenter
Re-told by me:
Fare thee well, my dear true friend
Farewell for a while
I'm going away but I'll be back
Though I go ten thousand miles
Ten thousand miles
My dear true friend
Ten thousand miles or more
The rocks may melt
And the seas may burn
If I should not return
Oh, don't you see that lonesome dove
Sitting on an ivy tree
She's weeping for her dear friend
As I shall weep for mine
Oh, come ye back, my dear true friend
And stay a while with me
If I had a friend at all on this earth
You've been a friend to me
Fare thee well Dear Friend!
