For all those loved and lost. Never forgotten.
Pictured above: my two closest friends, Ed Smith centre, Simon Kerruish right. Gone onwards.
Fellow players in the Boleros Ultimate frisbee team. And much, so much more . . .
(Incidentally, it was Ed’s mother Nada who started me off on the journey of reading and research that continues to this day, when she plonked Patrick Tilley’s “Mission” on the table, and said “here, read that, it might interest you . . . “)
Below, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performing Nimrod by Edward Elgar, part of his Enigma Variations suite.
It’s an intensely emotional piece of music, hard to listen to without tears.
But there is too towards the end a promise of catharsis and of peace—of battles fought and won. In short, the life of (a good) man or woman in little.
So this from me to those two good men. And to all those everywhere loved and lost.
Bless you all . . .