From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V11 #108 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, September 26 2006 Volume 11 : Number 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: About Tom's service [Bev Okin-Larkin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:58:57 -0500 From: Bev Okin-Larkin Subject: Re: About Tom's service Wow, I like that e are truly a global community, and I am so glad we met Tom and Kelly through our mutual love of Basia. And truthfully as much as his friends asked about us, I also took time to look at his other information, to know he was into radio controlled planes and cars was fascinating to me as well. Like so many of us, so many facets to his life and interests. I'm again so grateful we got to know him. Love to you Kelly. - -- Bev Okin-Larkin Leslie Osborn wrote: >Hey, you guys. Kelly sent me a very touching email about Tom's service and wanted to share it with his friends on the list as well: > > >"The kind words and support from all of the people on the Basia list >has been amazing. I feel like a Basia ambassador. I have explained >who she is to so many people, at the funeral and elsewhere. Many >people read the tributes on both the roperandsons.com site and the >lincolnjournalstar.com site and asked what is this Basia list? A >nice little diversion, perfect for Tom, that I am explaining to all >of his friends and family who this special person is and how much >Basia and her music meant to Tom. Funny, because I thought he had >already told everybody about her. And a lot of them did already know. > >"I think that you and the other people on the list would be happy to >know that I displayed a lot of pictures of Tom at the visitation and >funeral (one picture was of him standing in front of the marquee for >Basia and Matt Bianco in Denver in 5/05), as well as a Basia guitar >and piano song book, one of his guitars, his favorite Frank Zappa >book (with a marker he left in it where it talks about Frank's >prostate cancer), one of his radio-controlled airplanes and his >corvair books. > >"But it's so much about the music. After we called hospice we talked >about his funeral. He didn't really want to, but I did get him to >tell me that he wanted the song Yellow Submarine played. It >surprised me, and I asked him why. He said "Because we're all in the >same boat." His wry sense of humor never left him. So, I played >that song as pictures were shown on the screen, and also the Todd >Rundgren song A Dream Goes on Forever. > >"I had them play Ordinary Day as we all left the service. As I >explained in the "History of Tom" that was read at his service, it's >all about the ordinary days. When you face something so big, it's >comforting to have an ordinary day. And of course, we all needed to >hear Basia singing as we thought of Tom." > > >Bit choked up when I read this. :) > >-- Leslie O. >www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com > >"Just when you expect jaunty jazz-coated melodies, >'Cruising For Bruising' kicks Side One off balance >with a thunderous slab of mean-mutha rap metal spat >from the very bowels of Hell itself." > > NME review of London Warsaw New York, 2/24/90 ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V11 #108 ****************************