Tag: Death
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Thinking Music: Death Edition
Call me morbid, but I’m fascinated by death. It’s not that there’s any hurry for me to get there (I love life and want it to last as long as possible), but the finality and mystery of our inevitable demise have a way of arousing an endless array of questions and curiosities in my mind.…
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A Hell of a Problem
On the evening of August 14, 1994, two young women were walking together down a quiet street on the outskirts of Casper, Wyoming. Best friends since middle school, Tammy Sloane and her roommate Jennifer Durkin were returning home from their shift at The Rusty Spoon, a local diner where they both worked as servers. They…
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The Edge of the Frame
Note: The following is the funeral message for my grandfather, delivered on June 19, 2018, in Leitchfield, Kentucky. One of the more welcome effects of loss is nostalgia. For me these past few days, that has looked like shuffling through my own mental database of memories involving the man the world knew as Hubert Gene…