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Thanks for sharing..... and so happy it was a wonderful celebration.

were also to perform.
Ms. Angelou graced this orchestra and audience last fall with a symphonic reading.
Wish I had been there.

It sounds like a great memorial to a wonderful person.

Mr. Bear is a Winston-Salem native so I've spent a lot of time there, and know some folks who were friends of Dr. Angelou. And since I'm a poet and writer I feel a wonderful kinship. But I was surprised at how deeply touched I was by the mothering she seems to have done for all those people. Such strength and conviction and joy. I'll carry that with me for a long time.

Thank you for the post. Nice to know it was a wonderful as it seemed.

Congratulations upon your invitation...it really is an honor.

How sweetly and appropriately poetic.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

I love the way the AA community handles death--from the ending celebration to the demonstrative emotions (and I love me some ladies with fine church hats)--I think the AA community does it right.

Beautiful.

Still, she rises. Thanks for being there - and being our correspondent, reporting back to us about it.

for such a touching and momentous occasion.
You were on my mind....

"Homecoming" beautiful.

Thanks for the thread, Mira.

I cried, I laughed....this woman talked to the girl who was born and raised in Iowa....we didn't come from the same place but I have always wanted to be her....Yeah, I still have tears...love this most beautiful woman

is a send off full of joy.

she was an amazing woman, which is some high praise.

that you attended this homegoing, Mira, and brought us a splendid image of a woman who lived a great life by doing so much for so many.

Maya