Excerpted from an email I sent to family, with a little addendum...

[rydot]

During the service on Saturday, I found myself moved nearly to tears at the Philadelphia Horn Section's performance. To my ears, this was clearly a musical embodiment of the thoughts and feelings-- the memories of Mason that we share and shared --that most of us are accustomed to using only words to express

Comments

[boymaenad]

oh god, there is, isn't there... :)

glad you're back and that it was fulfilling in its way.

[midnitewolf]

A bit late to this conversation, but for what it's worth, if you share a grandparent with them, they are still first cousins. A second cousin is someone with whom you share a great grandparent, but not a grandparent (ie, the child of a grand-aunt/uncle