Can you imagine? her husband had died in a motorcycle accident two days before, leaving her alone with a young son.
She asked the musician to play at his funeral. All of this happened quietly, the air of unreality around this woman blurred her edges, at the time, I admired how she could pull herself together, her stoicism impressed me, later I told myself it must be shock, no one can imagine what's worse, to lose a father or a son, a husband or a brother. Regardless of gender, loss is loss and the world moves on. Quickly or quietly, it moves,
When she left, I did not see her go, I thought of her husband, a man I had never met nor would ever meet, dead in circumstances most vaguely defined. Regardless, I felt certain he'd died having lived.
Having lived his life as he had conceived it, death in the process of living his ideal was far better than the alternatives.
The courageous man dies once, the coward dies a thousand times a day.
Having no choice about the timing yet having choice in so much else, he lived according to himself until the end.
