Subj : Recent events 1.
To   : BOB KLAHN
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Wed Jul 17 2013 19:39:49

Hello Bob,

 BK> Went to a funeral today, for a friend of my wife. She was a
 BK> music teacher and performer. As such, so were many of her
 BK> friends, including my wife, and the woman sitting to my right at
 BK> the funeral dinner. Seems musicians tend to know each other.

Working musicians often do know each other.  Even non-working
musicians (no musician is ever truly retired).  That does not
mean that all musicians are friends with each other, although
many are.

BK>While we were sitting at the table waiting for the rest of the
BK>mourners to arrive, a couple of black women walked up to us and
BK>joined us. One of them greeted my wife as an old friend, but I
BK>had never met her. I recounted to her that I had told my wife
BK>she had looked at her as if she knew her.

None of those attending were "mourners".  Here is Louisiana, those
attending funerals are known as "celebrants".  Because that is what
we do.  We "celebrate" the passing of an individual as he/she leaves
one world and enters another.  This has nothing to with race, be it
black or whte or whatever other color there is in the universe.

We have a tradition in Louisiana with brass bands.  A brass band will
play songs of mourning as an individual is being brought to his/her
place of rest, and songs of joy after he/she has been laid to rest.

In that sense, death is part of life.  Or a part of life.  No life
can be worth living until the experience of death has come.  Only then
will there be life everlasting.  And that is something that is worth
celebrating.

BK>She looked at the white woman sitting to my right, and said, "Oh
BK>yes, I know her."

BK>I pointed to my left and said, no, this is my wife.

BK>Funny what we assume.

Don't you know?  The woman is colorblind.  As most women are.
Much more so than men, anyway.  Really.  I kid you not.  It is a
scientifically-proven fact.  More women than men are colorblind.
You of all people should know that.

--Lee

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