Jerry,

You may have seen on a recent thread that Joan, a friend of mine, and her husband were murdered a little over a week ago. I learned the awful news at the dancing class we were both members of when I attended last Tuesday. This Tuesday, yesterday morning, I was present in Court, as Court Duty Officer, when their son was brought in accused of their murder.

Last night I again attended the dance class that Joan was a member of. Her dancing friends knew, like you, that Joan would have wanted that. We chose to meet to remember her by dancing all of her favourite dances and the music which she loved to sing along to. We chose to celebrate her life and her beautiful dancing. We chose to speak of her and remember wonderful times we had shared with her. We mourn for ourselves, for our loss, our sadness - but we can choose to deal with that mourning by being glad that we knew that person, by remembering the good times and sharing with others the love which often came from the person to ourselves.

Pauline