Dearly Beloved . . .

prince-2016-press-pic-supplied-2-credit-photo-to-Nandy-McCleanThe night after Prince died, the DJ upstairs cranked Raspberry Beret on repeat while he and his friends sand along with it, and kept up the music all night. I had a job interview in the morning but I did not have the heart to ask him to turn it down.

On my way to Seder yesterday, The Current started playing When Doves Cry. I cranked it and started rocking out and singing along.

The woman in the car next to me waved and we sang along together — she had it cranked in her car, too.

On the way home, I saw every building lit up purple in the Minneapolis skyline.

I shocked myself by crying at work when I heard. He was so fundamentally weird and fundamentally brilliant and fundamentally OURS.

Published by haddayr

Writer, parent, cripple, queer; worker, dancer. City dweller. Bicyclist. I love whiskey, tea, and cussing.