--- a/funeral.txt	Thu Sep 11 12:43:46 2025 -0400
+++ b/funeral.txt	Thu Sep 11 12:54:05 2025 -0400
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 Quaker Meeting in Edinburgh, he could become a Quaker.  I had to say
 that our normal application process took rather a long time, and
 usually was only initiated after someone had been attending Meeting
-for Worship with us for quite a while.  But then I remmebered that
+for Worship with us for quite a while.  But then I remembered that
 Brian had actually been married in a Quaker Meeting back in the early
 1970s, and he thought that it might even have been in Toronto.  If so,
 the preparation for that would have involved a similar kind of
@@ -69,7 +69,15 @@
 substantial, towering intellectually, a warm and tender friend, lover
 and husband.  In the two 1/2 years since his terminal cancer
 diagnosis, although his body slowly degraded, he remained himself in
-all the ways that mattered.
+all the ways that mattered.  His life spoke, to me and to many, and it
+still does.
+
+Brian's physical living has come to an end, but his life is still as
+real and true as the pyramids or the ignition of the Sun, and that
+life, in its entirety, is still with us.  Perhaps my excuse for not
+being as devasted by his death as I expected to be is precisely that
+I've been used to physical distance from him for so long.  He was with
+me then, and he still is.
 
 ...
 
@@ -86,7 +94,7 @@
 
 At this time Brian was running a major research lab at Xerox Palo Alto,
 co-founding Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and helping
-to create an interdisciplinary research center at Stanford.  But being
+to create an interdisciplinary research centre at Stanford.  But being
 Brian, with Susan's help, he put together a plan for a compound, got
 Julian to design it, scraped together the money to build it, and moved
 in.