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What a Wonderful World (In loving memory of Dennis A. Roach)

by Mary R

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After battling throat cancer for four years, my father passed away this past weekend. He was brave and strong and put up an incredible fight.

My dad had an uncanny ability to pitch a ladder up into a tree, climb onto it with a long saw, and work pruning magic, cut by cut. He lost his ability to speak almost 8 months ago after a crazy complex surgery and that was hard. You don't realize how much you miss hearing someone's voice until it's gone.

Since 2800 miles exist between me and my hometown, my parents would occasionally ask for recordings of their favorite songs this past summer. Sometimes it was a Smokey Robinson tune or a Carole King song. This one was my dad's favorite. It was recorded off-the-cuff with my phone on a muggy day in August. It was never meant to stand alone as a formal, permanent recording, but now, it seems alright to keep it just as is, and to share it.

My father was a kind-hearted man whose memory can still be felt in the rustling of leaves in trees, the softness of flannel, the joy of driving a manual transmission vehicle and the gentle movements of fish and butterflies.

"... you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you." -e.e. cummings

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released October 17, 2016
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