Felix's Funeral December 22, 2018

Ingathering Music


Invocation: from No Death, No Fear by Thich Nhat Hahn

This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies All manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source, Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.

Opening Words by Rev. Ellen Rowse Spero

Reading: "I Know You Love Me"
                  by Felix Brow-Westbrook
Reader: Eli Denby Wood

Song: "Chimes"
Composed and performed by Eli Denby Wood

Eli performing Chimes

Prayer


Reflections in Walden Pond: Felix's Last Year
written by Elizabeth Parise

Song: "No Wonder I"
           Lake w/m by Ashley Ericksson and Ell Moore



Fairyland: Friendship and Family 

Comfort and Companionship
written by Elizabeth Parise

Friendship
by Tyler Brice

Sibling Reflections:   

Frankie

Lillian

Rebekah

Song: "Vincent"
           Don McLean



Responsive Litany: "We Remember Him"
                                 Adapted from Roland B. Gittelsohn



Off to Massachusetts: Felix Comes Home
written by Elizabeth Parise

In Concord Felix found home. He blossomed artistically and in life. He fell in love with art, architecture, and history. He became an avid reader and thinker. And he made some of the strongest and most enduring friendships.

Reading: Henry David Thoreau
Reader: David H. Brow

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living- that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world

Song: "Solsbury Hill"
           Peter Gabriel



Closing Blessing: from To Bless the Space Between Us
                             John O'Donohue

Recessional Music

Ceremonial walk to Forefathers Cemetery for Interment

Followed by a Ceremony at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Walking to Forefathers for interment. This was a special honor because it is rarely done anymore but was originally how funerals and burials were done