{"id":11584,"date":"2013-03-03T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T04:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2013-03-03T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T04:11:05","slug":"frozen-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11584","title":{"rendered":"Frozen in time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nBroken windows and empty hallways
\nA pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray
\nHuman kindness is overflowing
\nAnd I think it’s going to rain today\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Years ago I had a friend who was diagnosed with leukemia. She was beautiful, in her early twenties, full of energy and life, with the entire world before her.<\/p>\n

The doctors prescribed a bone marrow transplant. The prognosis was not all that good, but where there is life there is hope.<\/p>\n

Everyone brought presents. Mine was Judy Collins’ album “In My Life”. I’m not sure why I chose that album. Perhaps it was because each of its songs had been a great discovery for me, and I wanted to share that experience.<\/p>\n

There was one song in particular — Randy Neuman’s “Think It’s Going to Rain Today” — that I really wanted my friend to hear. Even today I’m not sure why. I guess there was just something so fierce about that song, a sense of powerful connection, of life and friendship being sacred no matter how flawed, how imperfect, we all inevitably are.<\/p>\n

She loved it. And then she had the bone marrow transplant. And then she died.<\/p>\n

Even today, when I hear that song, I think back on that moment in life, now frozen in time.<\/p>\n

\nBright before me the signs implore me
\nTo help the needy and show them the way
\nHuman kindness is overflowing
\nAnd I think it’s going to rain today\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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