Hello Bob,   
      
    BK> Went to a funeral today, for a friend of my wife. She was a   
    BK> music teacher and performer. As such, so were many of her   
    BK> friends, including my wife, and the woman sitting to my right at   
    BK> the funeral dinner. Seems musicians tend to know each other.   
      
   Working musicians often do know each other.  Even non-working   
   musicians (no musician is ever truly retired).  That does not   
   mean that all musicians are friends with each other, although   
   many are.   
      
   BK>While we were sitting at the table waiting for the rest of the   
   BK>mourners to arrive, a couple of black women walked up to us and   
   BK>joined us. One of them greeted my wife as an old friend, but I   
   BK>had never met her. I recounted to her that I had told my wife   
   BK>she had looked at her as if she knew her.   
      
   None of those attending were "mourners".  Here is Louisiana, those   
   attending funerals are known as "celebrants".  Because that is what   
   we do.  We "celebrate" the passing of an individual as he/she leaves   
   one world and enters another.  This has nothing to with race, be it   
   black or whte or whatever other color there is in the universe.   
      
   We have a tradition in Louisiana with brass bands.  A brass band will   
   play songs of mourning as an individual is being brought to his/her   
   place of rest, and songs of joy after he/she has been laid to rest.   
      
   In that sense, death is part of life.  Or a part of life.  No life   
   can be worth living until the experience of death has come.  Only then   
   will there be life everlasting.  And that is something that is worth   
   celebrating.   
      
   BK>She looked at the white woman sitting to my right, and said, "Oh   
   BK>yes, I know her."   
      
   BK>I pointed to my left and said, no, this is my wife.   
      
   BK>Funny what we assume.   
      
   Don't you know?  The woman is colorblind.  As most women are.   
   Much more so than men, anyway.  Really.  I kid you not.  It is a   
   scientifically-proven fact.  More women than men are colorblind.   
   You of all people should know that.   
      
   --Lee   
      
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