Monday 22 February 2010
5:06 AM, Paris Time
By David Pitt, Monday 22 February 2010 - 20:06 :: Mixed
Today, through the magic of coordination, at 5:06 AM, Paris time, two candles will be lit. One of them will be lit close to where her ashes comingle with the earth – le Revard. It will be lit by the best friend a woman ever had, in honor of the best friend that woman ever knew. She spread those ashes just a few months ago.
The second candle will be lit by me at exactly 5:06 AM, Paris time - we are 9 hours earlier here in the Sierra Nevada. It will be lit in the place from which I journeyed forth in 1976 specifically to meet her. It is also where our two lives originally comingled in earnest in 1998. Actually it will be not 300 yards from our first home – the address is still the same.
Elsewhere, in Paris, les ptits loups will hold hands. At minimum they will hold hands in thought, and possibly they will hold hands in fact. They are now united with an unbreakable bond – together they spread her ashes into the waters of the world in les Antilles almost two years ago.
Fifty six years and half a dozen lives – Paris, le Revard, les Antilles et nous Sierra Nevada unifié. Two years ago I uttered the words: “She is at peace; and so am I. She earned her rest with a magnificent fight and an inspirational life. Her children will now carry on. At 5:06 AM on the 23rd of February a light went out on earth, and in my heart. Perhaps a star blinked on in the heavens. Its name was Minou.” Today two candles are lit. They combine the mountains, the oceans, two continents and us. Perhaps a light will go back on in my heart.
February 22, 2010 / 5:06 AM, Paris Time / OC pg 21, © 2010 / CIP 797, Feb 22, 2010 / SHE