My dad, James Leddy, died a year ago today. Last night I dozed while watching the news and dreamed that he was there watching, wearing a plaid short-sleeved shirt. I’ll listen to some of his records today (as I do most days), call my mom (as I do every day), and have a piece of dark chocolate (his favorite). He was a good man, and he’s never out of mind, or heart.
Here is what I wrote about my dad last August.
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Dad, i.m.
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If I lived next door to you, I'd come over to give you a hug. I'll just have to write this instead.
And we could listen to Mel Tormé! Thank you, Martha. :)
Hello, Michael. A thought for your father, and for Mel Tormé. The man with perfect pitch.
Thank you, Barnaby.
That's nice he showed up like that, and I love how dreams supply details such as the plaid short-sleeved shirt---I assume that's correct for your dad?
Regarding something else, I was reading about hallucinations people have of dead people--turns out it's very common--Oliver Sacks included a section on it in his book _Hallucinations_
and I was struck by the clothing details in this one--reminded me of your father's shirt--it's sweet to me how our brains supply these details:
"A friend of Sacks named Ray tells the author of his experience just days after the death of his father, when he awoke in the middle of the night and saw a vision of him sitting on the corner of his bed, wearing his khaki slacks and a tan polo shirt.
Ray continued: "He sat there for a moment and then said — did he speak or just convey the thought? — 'Everything is all right.'""
via:
www.nextavenue.org/why-loved-ones-hallucinations-may-be-good/
Very interesting! That’s an Oliver Sacks book I’ll have to get.
Now I’m thinking about the scenes in Homer and Virgil of seeing the dead.
"Homer, wearing tan slacks and a plaid shirt, sat on Virgil's bed..."
Virgil wore that same style, just half size.
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