Places of sadness, celebration, but surely of memories…

Inhabited by people who may not know each other,

But gather to experience moments that may bind them forever.

Minimalist or lavish, dark or light, solemn or raucous these spaces are moods

from within, made stronger by the person living it and the memories of those

Not there.

In both, the mind is numbed and the heart expanded to feel the good intensely …

While drowning out the echos of less than perfect lives.

Yet recalling the memories of a life and time well lived.