Claire-- Your "Earthrise" was deeply moving. This is what a witness is for. I've been to church and found the deeps of life all in the same message. Beautiful.Thank you! Bill and Beverly Salmon ----- Original Message ----- From: 'Clare Whitney' cla9ken8@ecentral.com [earthrise] To: earthrise@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 9:38 AM Subject: [earthrise] June 2014 Clare &Ken’s Birthdays: June 18 and 19 Ken and I have just come from a journey that started in Burlington VT and ended in Nashville, TN. It was a splendid time, mostly. The formal excuse for the trip was Joleil’s 8th grade graduation on June 7th. Peter’s memorial service was on June 6, 2013, and we arrived to see Carol and the girls on June 6. (We had met in Boston after Christmas last year so we had seen each other, just not in East Burke.) The first stop we made was at the cemetery to present some flowers and weep a little at the loss of a very great man, far too young. The stone is a granite pyramid, representing the mountains that Peter loved so much. It was painful and healing at one and the same time to see his name engraved on the stone and to be there at all. So we all have lived a year with a huge hole in our hearts that is mending very slowly and may never be closed, but we are caring for it and loving everyone we have in our lives. Nashville was our last stop and involved immersion in a culture about which we know very little – that of country music. We went to the “church” of country music – The Grand Ole Opry, where you even sit in pews. We experienced the witnessing aspect of country music, and the tremendous significance of this part of our American culture, impressing this classically trained musician from New England. The major image, of course, is “Let the Circle Be Unbroken” representing the long tradition of country music performance from the Ryman Auditorium to the Grand Ole Opry site outside Nashville. That’s a good image for our family’s year – the circle was broken, and we are trying to bring it back together again. Clare Whitney Denver CO __._,_.___ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted by: "Clare Whitney" <cla9ken8@ecentral.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reply via web post • Reply to sender • Reply to group • Start a New Topic • Messages in this topic (1) For additional information, including guidelines and schedule, go to: http://www.geocities.com/earthrisegroup/webpage.html Visit Your Group • Privacy • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3972/7735 - Release Date: 06/24/14