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QuoteReplyTopic: Edward Kennedy Is Now History Posted: 28-Aug-2009 at 21:13
I'm sure, by now eaglecap, the news has reached you. I leave you with another prose-poem for your possible pleasure.-Ron in Tasmania ---------------
RIGHTNESS
"There is no music in the literature," writes Harold Schonberg, "that has Bach's kind of rightness." There is rightness in an inevitability, an intelligence, in an organized sequence of notes, in a relation with religion and divinity, in a new harmonic language, sense and intensity which sets Bach off from his more timid and less inventive contemporaries. Nothing could interfere with his vision of music and his drive, nor his compulsion to saturate himself with his art. Even so, he expected the bulk of his music to disappear after his death. Death was a subject which obsessed him. -Ron Price with thanks to Harold Schonberg, The Lives of the Great Composers, W.W. Norton, NY, 1981, pp.35-46.
We all die and there is, yes, a rightness here in this endless poetic of existence: politicians, poets, priests, power people, paupers, pundits-- they all go into a hole for those who speak no more. Would you want togo on here forever??
Do they pray for you and can you pray for them? Does any of it have some relation with religion-divinity, mysterious, inevitable, harmonic,visionary, obsessive, compulsive, all this, with a strange attraction to that very undiscovered country and its breezes, trees, sunshine and roses and, yes, light upon light..... I wish you well, Edward.
Ron Price For Edward Kennedy and Others with an Interest in the Afterlife... if there is one.....??!!
Ron Price has been married for 47 years(in 2014) and a teacher for 35. He has been a writer and editor for 15, and a Baha'i for 55(in 2014).
When that last remnant of the Baha’i heroic age (1844-1921) died on 15 July 1932, Ted Kennedy, a man who would become what might very well be called the last remnant of a heroic family was five months old. (1) (1) Fatimih Sultan was entitled "Varaqiy-i-'Ulyá" or "Greatest Holy Leaf". She was the only daughter of the Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Also known as Bahiyyih Khanum, she died on 15 July 1932 and Ted Kennedy was born on 22 February 1932. He died yesterday. This prose-poem will serve for me as a quasi-eulogy. I hope this short piece of writing is enjoyed by a few at this internet site.-Ron Price, George Town, Tasmania
You were in office, Ted, from the age of thirty when I was just beginning my own office as that pioneer-traveller for that young Canadian Bahá'í community....(1)
You became the third longest serving senator and I became the longest serving international pioneer in Canada. But, Ted, it is presumptuous to compare my life to yours, but I’m going to do it....
You had back pain all your years after ’64 and I had to deal with bipolar disorder after ’63. You ran off a bridge in ’69 and I ran off the rails in ’68 due to...BPD. Some never forgave you, Ted and some never understood me.
You had a long history of public service stretching until your very death, just yesterday........Energy, what energy you had! You’ve got 33 pages now at Wikipedia, Ted, one of the modern literary monu- ments and what a list of stuff, Ted!
You were the youngest of nine children and I was just an only child. All those schools, Ted... how did you survive it all? It was a miracle that you got through your education. I could go on and on with this comparison, this contrast. I’m really not in your... league, not any where near you. Here I am at 65—had enough of meetings, conversations, but still have little forays into public space.
“Congratulations,” Ted, “goodonyer,” as they say Downunder. May you live in peace in that Land of Light, that un- discovered country, that hole as some call the place where those go who do not speak any more. You did enough talking for a dozen men in that dynasty of Kennedys who are gone from us now.
(1) Ted Kennedy was in office since November 1962 and I was a pioneer from September 1962.
Ron Price 26 August 2009
Ron Price has been married for 47 years(in 2014) and a teacher for 35. He has been a writer and editor for 15, and a Baha'i for 55(in 2014).
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