tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post113264106264396030..comments2024-03-14T11:50:14.761-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Top Ten Influences MemeDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1133159964055034892005-11-28T01:39:00.000-05:002005-11-28T01:39:00.000-05:00Dear Darwin:I will consider myself officially "tag...Dear Darwin:<BR/><BR/>I will consider myself officially "tagged". It may take some time for me to respond.<BR/><BR/>I happened to be present at the funeral for your younger brother, Jonathon, those many years ago. I recall that two friends of your mother and father, two of the best sopranos that I have actually met, got together with the organist, and managed to put together, and sing at the funeral, the <I>Pie Jesu</I> from Andrew Lloyd Webber's <I>Requiem</I>. It was one of the most moving religious and musical experiences of my life.Bernard Brandthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00159541603126407072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1133156413383713312005-11-28T00:40:00.000-05:002005-11-28T00:40:00.000-05:00He was almost five months old.It does make you wor...He was almost five months old.<BR/><BR/>It does make you worry a lot more. I know I would constantly wake up and check our daughters, just to make sure they were still breathing. (And I felt a very real relief that they were daughters, given that SIDS is significantly rarer in girls than in boys.)<BR/><BR/>I know my parents got incredibly tired of people asking them "have you got over it yet?" I know their feelings, as parents and adults, were infinitely more than my own as a young child, yet from my own vantage point, I would say that you never "get over" such things in the sense of going back to being the same sort of person you were before. Rather, you become a person to whom this has happened -- a permanently different person.<BR/><BR/>You and your family are certainly in my prayers tonight.Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1133154234971147552005-11-28T00:03:00.000-05:002005-11-28T00:03:00.000-05:00I cried when I read number one. How old was your ...I cried when I read number one. How old was your brother? I lost a son not that long ago to SIDS when he was only a week old. It has made me keenly aware that we can go at any time, even when you least expect it. Unfortunately I am now suffering from extensive paranoia about death and am afraid about a lot of things that I didn't worry about before. I know that is not the right attitude that Christians are supposed to have, and I have to work very hard to trust the Lord.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com