I do want help, thank you. It would be so easy to talk to a priest say "do a funeral mass, here's the list of family members who can eulogize" but that would be so wrong for Rich. I am talking (or planning to try to talk) to folks who could say a few words about Rich, tell a funny story about him, or play some music. I need a point person whom they could all sign up with, and who would draw up the order of, uh, whatever. So that there is a somewhat organized plan for what happens at the memorial service. I think it will be somewhat self-organizing, but not totally. And I don't want to be totally in charge. The thought of that makes me feel weird, because we had been drifting apart at nearly light-speed. I think this can just grow out of the communities that Rich was involved in, but I think I need to be a seed crystal. (Just because... who else would be? There are people taking charge of pieces of all this, but they seem to be all defering to me, I think.)
Do you want to be that point person, and type up the order of, um, stuff? (Or does another of "us organizing types" want to?)
There are people who were closer to Rich who have asked to help out. Such as Craig. But I think he's the quiet type who would be less happy on the telephone, and some of this needs to be on the phone.
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Do you want to be that point person, and type up the order of, um, stuff? (Or does another of "us organizing types" want to?)
There are people who were closer to Rich who have asked to help out. Such as Craig. But I think he's the quiet type who would be less happy on the telephone, and some of this needs to be on the phone.