Wednesday, April 11, 2012
It was a funeral for the ages, a warm two-hour bath of memory and hope. It was also a snapshot of a world gone by.
There are those who struggle for a day and they are good.
There are those who struggle for a year and they are better.
There are those who struggle many years, and they are better still.
But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the
indispensable ones.
-Bertolt Brecht
It was a funeral for the ages, a warm two-hour bath of memory and hope. It was also a snapshot of a world gone by.
Alice Heap -- "wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, Christian, pacifist, socialist, feminist, community activist and organizer extraordinaire" was feted and sent on her way to glory in a Mass of Resurrection at the boiler room of incarnated Christianity, Holy Trinity Anglican Church.