I've not 'shown' this 2007 photograph of "Bird" Lowe, because she, grieving over the death of her only daughter, Cheryl, is not displaying a 'look' that her friends and family would like to 'remember' her by.....Now, that some time has passed, and the need for more ameliorative 'takes', I'm remembering how she replied, in an aside to me, as I held my then-ever-present camera a couple of feet away, as her good friend and neighbor commented, "You'll outlive us all, Katherine!"..... This 'look' says otherwise........She could tell 'the camera' how she felt, knowing this portraiture would outlive her laughter to please others.....We are but beings, briefly illuminated against the illusory permanence, by the light of Living......My morose thoughts this morning are fueled from having, late last night, turned 'on' the TV.....only to view the final moments of Death In Venice.... As, Gustav von Aschenbach, hair blackened with dye, expires on a beach chair as he gazes out at a metaphorical Tadzio, to the soundtrack of Mascia Predit's rendition of a Mussorgsky lullaby. Saddened, I touched an arbitrary button on the 'remote', only to be 'taken' to the final, lugubrious scene of another Bogarde film, in which Teddy "Bare", deliriously drives a coupe over a steep cliff.....and, yesterday, the first of her three sons, John Wharton Lowe III, hanged himself. Bird had anticipated this event, twenty years ago......
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