And a great man has gone beyond

[ishte]

That would be my Dad, who passed away at about 9:30 this evening.  I don't really have a lot to say about it right now.  Kind of numb.  The thing is... He was just trapped inside that body... to the point where he couldn't even get out enough to acknowledge most of us... so now, he's out of it.  He's not trapped in there any more. He's not suffering.  I can sense him around me.  I have his song in my heart.

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My brother delivered a really stunning eulogy that he wrote himself. He said everything that I would have said, and I never knew he could write so well, or speak so eloquently. I'm trying to figure out when that happened. I'm going to ask him for a copy and will probably post it later because it says so much. I'll make a post later about the service in general because it was really nicely done. I was so afraid that man was going to start talking hellfire and brimstone and I so did not want that for my dad because even if I believed in *that place* I have no reason to think my Dad would have in any way gotten there to see it.