Comments on: I Saw Her Fade http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/11/i-saw-her-fade/ Where our past is never very long ago Thu, 23 May 2013 03:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/11/i-saw-her-fade/comment-page-1/#comment-263083 Ardis E. Parshall Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:04:10 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=18959#comment-263083 Thomas Ward actually edited the Star for a time, so although I don’t know much else about him personally, I am confident that he was LDS and that his faith influenced his views of death. I’d like to learn more about him.

In case you or anyone else saw the poem I first posted, please realize that I scheduled a number of poems and fiction pieces a week or so in advance, without thinking about the days they would appear. The first one I posted, while wonderful in its own right, was in shockingly bad taste for 9/11 and I pulled it down as soon as I realized. This one, although presenting the image of a quiet, peaceful death, seemed more fitting.

]]> By: Amy T http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/11/i-saw-her-fade/comment-page-1/#comment-263071 Amy T Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:35:55 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=18959#comment-263071 Wow. That’s amazing. What a selection for September 11. I’ve read it three times now and the third time could barely make it through. I read something similar last week from a newsman about the experience of attending the funeral of a baby who died from a major heart defect, and I never know when I look at the Facebook heart communities each morning if I will be seeing a note that a family has just been through this experience.

Well, that’s enough thinking about grief for today. Do you know if Ward was LDS, Ardis? I see that this selection is from the Millennial Star, but didn’t they tend to aggregate content like this from other sources?

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