• Dorothy J. Heydt

    From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 29 23:13:01 2022
    Hal Heydt posting from Dorothy Heydt's account. She wrote the
    following during her recent stay in Stanford Hospital to be
    posted after her death, which came sooner than we expected. I am
    following the wishes of my beloved wife of 51 years.

    Any errors of formatting, spelling or grammar are mine. I will
    add this to her web site as I feel up to it.

    --Hal Heydt

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    To my family, friends, and anyone else interested:

    After I have died, tell anyone anything you like, ending with this text:

    Cynthia, widow of Demetrius Duilius Artifex (and of Komi, son of Endreigon,
    the only husband she had loved, and of Demodoros, whom no one remembered
    any more), sat dying in her bed.

    Her daughters, granddaughters, and the household servants were caring
    for her as she could no longer care for them, but she slipped out
    through the soles of her feet and into the depths of the earth.

    The place had not changed much since she had seen it last: its grey
    colors had faded a trifle, and the stream that had flowed between her
    and Komi had stopped moving: frozen, perhaps? But she was dead now,
    and could cross it.

    The silent dead sat among the trees, the spirits of men and gods and
    perhaps others, though if her friends the Qualities were here, they
    too had faded. But two remembered morning stars still shone, Komi

    But something that might have been time passed, and now a light shone
    from the east, filling earth and air with color, and a great chorus
    of voices: LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, YOU GATES, AND BE LIFTED UP, YOU
    EVERLASTING DOORS, THAT THE KING OF GLORY MAY COME IN.

    who is the King of Glory?

    THE LORD OF HOSTS: HE IS THE KING OF GLORY

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Dorothy J Heydt on Thu Jun 30 06:15:43 2022
    On 6/29/22 7:13 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
    Hal Heydt posting from Dorothy Heydt's account. She wrote the
    following during her recent stay in Stanford Hospital to be
    posted after her death, which came sooner than we expected. I am
    following the wishes of my beloved wife of 51 years.

    Any errors of formatting, spelling or grammar are mine. I will
    add this to her web site as I feel up to it.


    All my sympathy. I've posted a copy to my writing blog.

    https://garymcgath.com/wp/dorothy-j-heydt/


    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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