by wonderersheart | Jul 26, 2012 | Funerals |
Today I am writing a funeral service for my Dad. I didn’t want someone with rings on their fingers or bells on their toes to stand before our small gathering of family and friends and talk about the life and loss of someone they didn’t know. Come what may...
by wonderersheart | Jun 23, 2010 | Funerals |
I sometimes like to ask “If your life was a movie and it had a soundtrack, what would the theme song be? ” It’s a great dinner party conversation, the songs we love, the songs that say something about me (or you). There was one played at...
by wonderersheart | Jun 21, 2010 | Funerals |
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen was first released in 1984. As is typical of Cohen’s style it is lyrical and sober, a moving song, with a knock-out liturgical chorus. Mottsu and I played the Jeff Buckley version in the car on weekends. We would throw back our heads...
by wonderersheart | Jun 20, 2010 | Funerals |
When I needed to arrange a funeral service, almost without warning, I thought of songs that meant something to Mottsu and me. The first was K D Lang’s rendition of The Air That I Breathe. Simple, languid, a threnody filled with longing. It became the first song...
by wonderersheart | Jun 19, 2010 | Funerals |
Dictionary.com has a Word of the Day. Yesterday the word of the day was threnody [thren-uh-dee]. A threnody is a funeral song, dirge, a lament for the dead. I know of a couple of instances of people who selected the songs (or threnodies) to be played at their funeral....
