Requiem Borealis

Well 2006 is not my favorite year yet.


I lost my grandmother last Thursday. I was the last one to see her, 40 minutes before she died. She had asked me to open the windows in her hospital room so she could see the mountain. I feel like she made the decision to leave, she wasn't in a state of urgency when I left her, rather very calm. And she had told me stuff, messages she wanted me to provide to the family.

There's a lot I would need to say about the circumstances of her death and here is not the place. She was 91, and she entered hospital 2 weeks ago for an operation that never occured. She was otherwise healthy so I can't help but feel the health system in this country is negligent and we are dying because of it.


I am in the process of composing a small requiem for my grandmother, because I know
that of all persons in the world she would prefer that I wrote the crappiest music myself than hear the bestest of grandiloquent symphonies.


I am taking time off the blog (as usual this year) but I do reply to other blogs to keep my mind afresh. I had written a full review of the exhibit Resider in Montreal (3 exhibits) but didn't find time to polish since the hospital events in late June.


I'll be back at the end of the month.


Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@hotmail.com