awoke from a dream last Wednesday strangely refreshing and uplifting resounding in music the notes still reverberating on my heartstrings it was the first dream of my brother since his passing it may be my first dream of him ever he was laying in bed contemplating his demise don’t know if he was speaking before or after the fact guess it really doesn’t matter with one simple sentence and just a hint of anger “Life is stupid”, he said. implying remorse and resentment for still having so much to do I backed away to give him his privacy
as I readied myself for work he got up out of bed and found me happy and smiling, a sparkle in his eyes and teeth corroborated his contentment he was walking around the house playing his guitar it was acoustic and unplugged but the sound was electric he was playing a Mexican folksong his ex-wife appeared, singing the refrain:
“Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores por qué cantando se alegran Cielito Lindo, los corazones” 1
his song struck a chord whose message was immediate:
“sing and don’t cry for singing gladdens the heart”
his daughter’s seventeenth birthday is today with a party this weekend timing is often coincidental but it seems to me this message was for her and everyone at the gathering