The Whole Story
Jun. 28th, 2007 06:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosWhen LM died, he left behind only a few personal effects that were fully his, most of which had been gifts from me. Later that morning, I reminded our partner of the line from The Thirteenth Warrior: "I will die a pauper. . . A man could be thought wealthy indeed if someone were to write the story of his deeds."
I owe LM that story. I don't know all of it -- and that remains a source of grief for me -- but I know enough to tell the heart of it.
At first I couldn't write it because the grief was too raw. Now I don't have the time or peace. In another week or so, once the latest transition is accomplished, I'm going to start. There are some who will read it as a fantasy, while others will know that it's the truth as he told it to me and the truth as I lived it.
In the end, it is myth, sacred story, in which the facts are not the issue, the Truth of the story is.
I owe LM that story. I don't know all of it -- and that remains a source of grief for me -- but I know enough to tell the heart of it.
At first I couldn't write it because the grief was too raw. Now I don't have the time or peace. In another week or so, once the latest transition is accomplished, I'm going to start. There are some who will read it as a fantasy, while others will know that it's the truth as he told it to me and the truth as I lived it.
In the end, it is myth, sacred story, in which the facts are not the issue, the Truth of the story is.
