10-18-2017, 07:42 PM
Here is my blurb I will be saying during the morning prayer intention during morning announcements at my school (St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic) tomorrow:
He personified love and he helped make me a better teacher, father, person, and Christian. A country mourns a beautiful, brilliant soul. Not because we knew him but because he helped us know ourselves. He was an activist for the value of art and the rights of Indigenous Peoples. “Heaven is a better place today”, as Gord Downie would say. We learn in school that there are Christ figures in literature, but in life, we come to know of a handful of Christ figures. Gord’s music and words picked me (and many others) up at my lowest points, supreme ordeals, and rock bottom moments. In his words: “Done and done. Night accomplished. If I had a wish, I’d wish for more of this.”
So so so sad. *crying jags
He personified love and he helped make me a better teacher, father, person, and Christian. A country mourns a beautiful, brilliant soul. Not because we knew him but because he helped us know ourselves. He was an activist for the value of art and the rights of Indigenous Peoples. “Heaven is a better place today”, as Gord Downie would say. We learn in school that there are Christ figures in literature, but in life, we come to know of a handful of Christ figures. Gord’s music and words picked me (and many others) up at my lowest points, supreme ordeals, and rock bottom moments. In his words: “Done and done. Night accomplished. If I had a wish, I’d wish for more of this.”
So so so sad. *crying jags