Bergman

 Dear Will:

I remember us meeting after the movie, The Virgin Spring.  But when I found a story about Cinema 6 in the Idaho State Journal at Newspapers.com, it said that the movie was scheduled for October 17.  Yet in my memory it was in September, when allegedly The Belles of St. Trinian's was playing.

Idaho State Journal, Sept.30, 1971

You were always the one with the good memory until you weren't.  I should have asked you a long time ago.  Oh well.

I don't remember seeing the movie.  I do remember thinking about how Mom had complained about the film a few years previous when it had played at the Saratoga art theatre, so I was probably feeling like, "This is a great film but I still need to close my eyes."  I doubt I was triggered by the rape scene because I hadn't yet been raped.

Bergman was so important to both of us in those early days and was a key influence on my theology at the time.

I watched the movie again, yesterday, for the first time in over five decades.  Actually, I skimmed through it, watching certain scenes, cruising quickly through others, admiring the use of silence, the crisp cinematography, and the naked body of Max Von Sydow, which was so much like yours.

I am missing the well version of you horribly right now.  

I got the Birdy sculpture on Sunday but I don't know if it will fit on your grave.  If it doesn't, I'll just buy a traditional stone and have her placed in the yard.  It's a beautiful sculpture and looks just like her.

Love, always, Kake