How to process grief — lessons from an earlier age
The train has been much in the news recently, with exhibits such as The Train: RFK’s Last Journey at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, reviewed in The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey and also described with selected images at Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train, Fifty Years Later, along with the DVD One Thousand Pictures: RFK’s Last Journey drawn from Fusco’s work on that train, the publication of Chris Matthews‘ biography, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, and MSNBC’s Headliners docu tribute to RFK.
Even the most unexpected moment, infused with love and grief, can ignite a spontaneous, informal ceremony of great power
Sub umbra alarum tuarum..
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[ It has taken me several days to formulate this post, and I’m on fairly strong pain meds for my foot wound, so please blame them for any excessive typos or lack of coherence — I’m sure the general message comes through… ]
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Mark Osiecki:
June 7th, 2018 at 7:14 pm
Hi Charles. How very observant of you! Leinsdorf indeed provided a magnificent lens through which such an abrupt and unimaginable grief could be sensed there that day. This is the first time I heard that recording, and that secondary shockwave as he announced the funeral march is still there to be felt. What else could he have done…besides simply a “nothing” that would have been immensely more difficult to bear.
The calm diversity of the first three photos is as striking as is the contrast of the last two.
Wishing you well from Stockholm,
Mark
Charles Cameron:
June 7th, 2018 at 9:30 pm
I used to have the boxed set of the full funeral, complete with Cardinal Cushing intoning the appropriate parts of the Pontifical Mass, and a copy of the pamphlet that accompanied the service. It was a treasure — and now you can hear most of it on the web..