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Sunday, September 21, 2025
On Honoring with Remembrance & Resolve
Painting by artist Sam Ryan, done in the night hours following Charlie Kirk's death. It was present today onstage at the funeral service, where art, music and words from the heart honored Charlie's life with Truth & Grace.
I haven't finished listening to the whole service yet, but something RFK Jr said stood out, strong enough for me to go back to listen again to that part and write down what he'd said, based on a conversation he'd had with his mother after his brother David died.
He'd asked her: "Does the hole they leave in you when they die ever get any smaller?" And she said, " It never gets any smaller. Our job is to grow ourselves bigger than the hole. And we do that by taking the best qualities, the most admirable character traits of the person that died and integrate them with restraint, discipline and with practice into our own character. And in doing that we make ourselves larger and the hole gets proportionally smaller. We also give a kind of immortality to the person who left us, because their work continues through us."
What a collection of speakers! I wasn't sure I could watch (as Trump tends to make me anxious, unsure of when and where he'll veer off) but I started in at the half way point, and found something meaningful in what each speaker had to say, Trump included.
Plus, the coming together of this massive event, which took place without a hitch, says to me that there is a great deal of organization and energy already present and functional in those who are truly "all fired up" right now and committed to a cause they believe in and are able to articulate.
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I haven't finished listening to the whole service yet, but something RFK Jr said stood out, strong enough for me to go back to listen again to that part and write down what he'd said, based on a conversation he'd had with his mother after his brother David died.
He'd asked her: "Does the hole they leave in you when they die ever get any smaller?" And she said, " It never gets any smaller. Our job is to grow ourselves bigger than the hole. And we do that by taking the best qualities, the most admirable character traits of the person that died and integrate them with restraint, discipline and with practice into our own character. And in doing that we make ourselves larger and the hole gets proportionally smaller. We also give a kind of immortality to the person who left us, because their work continues through us."
What a collection of speakers! I wasn't sure I could watch (as Trump tends to make me anxious, unsure of when and where he'll veer off) but I started in at the half way point, and found something meaningful in what each speaker had to say, Trump included.
People were concednrned tghe Demos were "all fired-up" for tghe mideterms.
The feeling now is no sweat. The Conservatives asre the ones fired up.
Plus, the coming together of this massive event, which took place without a hitch, says to me that there is a great deal of organization and energy already present and functional in those who are truly "all fired up" right now and committed to a cause they believe in and are able to articulate.
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