In memory of Patrick Meadows and Stephanie Shepard
These are recordings of conversations with Patrick from over the years.
Here’s an audio recording with Patrick (18 March 2017) in which he starts by talking about his grave marker for the Deia cemetery (captured in mid-sentence).
He goes on to talk about how music festivals spread across the island after he and Stephanie got the Deia festival off the ground.
Transcription: Continue reading “Music Festival Propagation”
[From a recording.]
Christine asked how Patrick has influenced my [JP’s] life.
That’s a complicated question but there have been many influences both positive and somewhat negative.
On the positive side I learned a lot more about Continue reading “How Has Patrick Influenced My Life?”
Patrick sent me this short recording a long time ago (the file date is 2003, but it may have been earlier than that.) He said it was the last nightingale of the season before all flew off to wherever they go next.
I believe it was this song that filled his ears when he finally passed into the nothingness.
I have used it for my Windows “shutdown” sound all these years because it is so peaceful.
Here’s a recording from 18 March 2017 with a lot of restaurant background noise in which we talk about a toy construction set I remembered as a child. We had spent hours assembling a massive structure but I tripped and fell into it one night while getting up to use the bathroom.
JP: The construction set, I thought it was in New York.
PM: No, no, it came from New York. I brought it for Christmas from New York to visit you guys with Donna.
JP: I was thinking it was when you had to sling me in the sheets to make it look like laundry.
PM: That was New York. You came up on your own on a bus. Continue reading “Toy Construction Set”
This very special recording from 7 Oct 2014 is a conversation between Patrick, JP, and Christine. It’s too large to upload here so I’ve posted it on YouTube instead.
Christine: From your point of view as an 80-year-old man, and your son being 58 years old, and having lived the life that you’ve lived, what advice would you offer him as a younger man?
Patrick: Can you give me a couple days? Continue reading “Nothing Is More Important than Love”
Here’s a beautiful and very moving video of Patrick talking about music and Mozart’s requiem, sent to me by Carles Ponseti of Fundació Studio Aureum.
Carles Ponseti de la Fundació Studio Aureum me envió este hermoso y muy conmovedor video de Patrick hablando de música y requiem de Mozart. Continue reading “Patrick Habla de Música (Patrick Speaks about Music)”
I’ve created a new category and menu item for recordings of conversations I’ve had with Patrick from over the years and added a few items, including some humor, some philosophical musings about the end, and his recommendation for a film by Francesca Joseph. Continue reading “Conversational Recordings Added”
We talk about the need for direct morphine injections to alleviate Patrick’s pain.
Recorded on the 25th of March 2017.
Here’s a recording from 25 March 2017 in which Patrick talked about the time he added an I-beam to the house in Deia, and how the new owner eventually solved a structural problem that resulted.
Patrick and JP discuss the idea of memorial services after they’re gone. Patrick didn’t want anything, but agreed to letting us have something “for the living.” JP talked about when his time comes that he’s set aside money for a couple of parties and to send his ashes out on one last rally ride.
Recorded on the 25th of March 2017.