Category Archives: A Rite of Passage

Touching Funeral Song: “Streets of Philadelphia” by Bruce Springsteen



A hauntingly beautiful funeral song that encapsulates the fear, suffering, isolation and pain that those dying from AIDS experience
Posted on May 19, 2015 by Zoë Byrne (Editor in Chief, SevenPonds)

In 1993, Bruce Springsteen wrote and performed the hauntingly beautiful song, “Streets of Philadelphia” for the critically-acclaimed movie about life with and eventual death from HIV and AIDS, Philadelphia. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in … Continue reading →

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“For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.”

—Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
Posted on May 12, 2015 by Suzette Sherman (Founder, SevenPonds)
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“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”

- Simone de Beauvoir
Posted on April 28, 2015 by Zoë Byrne (Editor in Chief, SevenPonds)
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”Our fault is not that we fear death but that we don’t respect it as a miracle. The most profound subjects — love, truth, compassion, birth and death — are equal.”

- Deepak Chopra
Posted on April 14, 2015 by Greer Barker (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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 “Death With Dignity” by Sufjan Stevens

A memorial song that captures loss, longing and the pain of coming to terms with a parent's personal failures
Posted on April 7, 2015 by Greer Barker (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

In the first few lines in the first song off his newest album, Sufjan Stevens invokes a sacred silence, desire, confusion and fear: “Spirit of my silence I can hear you / But I am afraid to be near you.” In … Continue reading →

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Posted on March 31, 2015 by Suzette Sherman (Founder, SevenPonds)
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