Tuesday with Jeffrey; Tuesday, December 29, 2009; 12:38 p.m. EST
December 29, 2009
This is my “take” in my plays and writing and artistic timing.
This being stated, the purpose of today’s blog – yesterday’s funeral service for my friend, Deb, who also was my neighbor. Her son also is my friend and now my heart has extended to her family – her mom, her younger brothers, the relations to this core, and her daughter and Brian’s older sister, Dina. Dina is married with three beautiful children – Tabatha, Joshua and Zachary – wonderful children – magical.
The Good Witch of the East passed during the Christmas holiday and was buried yesterday at S.S. Peter and Paul in Broomall, PA. There was a requiem mass, a viewing and a post-cemetery luncheon gathering. The day was long and magnificent. This day’s procession brought incredible strength through love to Deb’s mom, who buried her second child and first-born and only daughter yesterday. Florence is 72. Brian is 25. Deb was my friend and she died in the same manner as my sponsor, Jerry, died this past July. Familiarity of the inevitable does not ease anything relative to the inevitable. The price of loving kindness is vulnerability, empathy, shared sorrow and a heart that can light some of the darkest places on this planet, one to one, at any given moment. The incense was appealing to me.
The cemetery was windy and cold. I was told that location always is like that – even in the spring!!! Imagine that? I had watched the film, “Purgatory,” during the holiday. It stars Sam Sheppard, Eric Roberts and Randy Quaid of whom I remember. Sheppard plays Wild Bill Hickok, Quaid plays Doc Holiday and Roberts plays a new bad guy names Black Jack. The town of Refuge is an amends to a life-taking lifestyle during one’s actual life and precedes the “final determination” of an alleged heaven or an alleged hell. It is a very well-made film and within the same double feature evening venue with “What Dreams May Come.” I prefer embracing some level of artistic fantasy to surround my conceptual posture of death after this life I understand as best as I may understand my life right now.
As a Jew, I am supposed to accept my time in hell on earth, to make the best of all situations at all times, and that we all go to the same place – heaven. How we play it day to day has been defined in writing from the desert lifestyle for 5,770 years so far. How that relates contemporaneously to my life and presence in 2009 in North America is what I seek today.
My name is Jeff Pergament and I am an artist and my works are for sale. You can visit me on the World Wide Web here: www.visualphenonema.org www.visualjeff.com www.visualjeff.org www.assetdevelopment.org www.designconstruct.org www.createdenvironments.com www.Ex-Offenders.org Thank you.
