Laurie Anderson, silent since the death of her husband Lou Reed, has spoken in the form of a note/obit
in their local newspaper in their out-of-Manhattan home near East Hampton. In full:
To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and
dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on
Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai
chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and
beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he
felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto
all of us.
— Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal frienda
Also re: Lou. Did I
edit his first published piece when I was at
Crawdaddy? Also:
My piece on when he underwent electroshock as a teen just over the hill from my home to drive out his "homosexual tendencies."
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