One of the things people do, after a funeral, is to kind of putter around, looking over odds and ends....it's a quiet way to make some transition.
Often it's dealing with small matters. For me, briefly, it's been a little bit of wondering over the songs played at the memorial service, that were
Heath's favorites. They were unusual.
He was very much into music, and as a creative person, would be expected to (and probably did) get into kind of rarefied zones. Yet his
favorites were (sorry if this offends anybody) simplistic and even specific mood producers. "Here comes the Sun" by the Beatles, was almost
mental bubble-gum except it produced an optimistic mood. "Old Man", by Neil Young, is a basically male-oriented sympathetic and sad song.
I remember that last one, in the taverns, was a favorite, in sad moods, but guys avoided playing it on the juke box, hoping somebody else would.
What stands out is that he favored these songs, moody songs (cheerful or very sad) despite the fact that they would be considered
"un-cool" in the hip crowds, and they actually would go against his own, more advanced tastes in music.
So, there's something there in those songs that over-rode everything against them, and he defiantly allowed himself to prefer them.
"Old Man", I believe, is the most telling. I think it may be the story of his life, as HE saw it, which contradicted everything anybody else saw.
That's what people often do, after a funeral. Putter around, looking things over. Hope you don't mind. I think the songs tell us something,
if you are willing to look them over, a little bit.
