bum! Bum! Hark to the plaintive song of the old woman, to the call of thepriests! The Hindoo woman in her long robe stands upon the funeral pile; theflames rise around her and her dead husband, but the Hindoo woman thinks onthe living one in the surrounding circle; on him whose ...
A week before her husband dies, Lonnie Ali changes the plans for his funeral. The funeral she had envisioned is too big, she thinks. It is too complicated. At her annual meeting with the man who has been doing most of the planning, she says, "Sit down. I have to talk to you about...
"A relationship is about inventing your own language,” says Sciamma. “You’ve got the jokes, you’ve got the songs, you have this anecdote that’s going to make you laugh three years later. It’s this language that you build. That’s what you mourn for when you’re losing someone...
- I told you he was going to come. 已经两年了 他也许又有麻烦 - It's been two years.- He's probably in trouble again. 他是个好教子 - He's a good godson. 强尼…唱首歌 Sing a song. 麦克 你从未告诉我你认得强尼方丹 Michael, you never told me you knew Johnny Fontane. 你想见他吗?
I opened the envelope delicately.Inside was a gift certificate for our favorite department store. Staring at the certificate in shock, we both knew how many cute clothes that would buy. “So, are we going to hand it to him?” I asked. ...
“Hark, do you hear the drum?—‘turn, turn,’—there are only two notes, always, ‘turn, turn.’ Listen to the women’s song of mourning! Hear the cry of the priest! In her long red robe stands the Hindoo widow by the funeral pile. The flames rise around her as she places ...
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because I was dating a guy who moved away, and it was going to be over for us. So I started thinking of things that I knew would remind him of me. The first thing that came to mind was that my favorite song is by Tim McGraw. After school, I went downtown, sat down at the pi...
One of the saddest things I have ever had to do, was go to a funeral for a little girl who was hit and killed by a car. In the funeral the minister talked about how much fun Jesus and the little girl were having in heaven right now. I thought, how cruel the minister is making ...
“It’s God’s will” at a funeral?). It also strips both God and evil of their complexity. The sources of evil are multifarious and impossible to trace with precision. And the activity of God within our temporal, finite existence is not a unilateral and unfettered exercise of power. ...