Someone passes away, and people start talking about a big ceremony and putting "shrines" up on websites. It is all over the news and everyone talks about it for days. That is exactly it, just days. Then after that everyone goes on with their lives and forget about that Joe what's his name or the Jane who's her face that had such a big impact on so many lives and the community. Their shrines are taken down, and memorials are canceled because something "more important" has rolled into town.
They talk about endowing her chair in perpetuity, but after a week do you think that happens? Of course not, typing those several extra words into approximately 4 programs a year wouldn't be worth the trouble. The concert series a week after the death, the director mentions her at the first two concerts. But at the last, the one in
her town, the one that she ruled over, she taught in, a word wasn't spoken by the director. Only a thanks to her replacements. And that word,
replacement. Should that truly ever be used. Could she be replaced? Or was someone different just sitting in her seat?
Is this what our society has come to? Grieve a death and then forget about it, making ourselves feel better. Is that truly what she deserves? I remember her six months after her death, as a courageous, talented woman who
deserves more than this. It makes me angry that I have heard no mention of the incidence since this summer.
I don't think she got the gratitude she deserved when she was here on earth, yet someone else drives a bit to play in her spot, and congratulations are in order. I will not forget you Karen Lucas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo5F8yT1wVE I know it has been forever since I have posted on V.com. Many of you probably don't even remember me. These are just thoughts that I have had building inside me for about half a year. I need to let them go finally.
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