Santa Fe Sunshine
Please, each Sir Knight & Companion, be cognizant of our keepers, our bonds with others, our care takers, our care givers, we all have them to what extent we need them. Please raise awareness where you notice gaps or a vacuum perhaps due to a recent change in status or situation that may be challenging to communicate. Be aware of the lifelines in your families lives or an unplanned lack thereof. Renew the spirit of being neighborly, remain aware, vigilant and communicative, and flexible.
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There is a memorable portraiture of Mr. Gene Hackman’s ancient Science, Rhetoric, that parallels how we live as Mason’s. Nurturing a small town group of basketball players in “Hoosiers”, we see the emotional influence upon youth being subjected to big city venues, akin to realizing ourselves, all can relate to the feeling of being thrust into a larger world from time to time, like any one of us might imagine we are uncertain about or unready for. Need we be reminded by the Coaches hand and measurement tool that, “The basket, the goal, is still 10 feet high,” no matter the décor around it? Yes, and he did. He made the transformation from youth into men completely believable before us; this is a fruition of God’s gifts to women and men on earth, exhibited to us through his son Gene. While the sweet sounds of the ancient Greek Science Musik, classical piano, surely soothed souls in the family’s home in Santa, Fe, New Mexico, until, of late. One of The finest character acters and his loving life Companion have set down their ancient performance tools.
Alas my Sister. Alas my Brother. Bless you. Peace be with You together in His Celestial Lodge above, about the Grand Theatre, about the Grand Ball.
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs reported from Santa Fe, N.M., Julia Jacobs from New York and Richard Fausset from Atlanta. March 8, 2025:
“Officials said the couple died of natural causes, he of heart disease and she of a rare viral infection. But it was Ms. Arakawa — the caregiver, lover, protector — who died first, perhaps on Feb. 11, leaving Mr. Hackman, 95 years old with advanced Alzheimer’s, alone in the house for days. He is believed to have died a week later, on Feb. 18. Before Gene Hackman faded from public view in his adopted hometown of Santa Fe, N.M., the locals would see the aging movie star on the golf course or in his truck or walking his beloved dogs in the enchanted western city, amid the juniper and pinyon pine.
His wife, Betsy Arakawa, was often alongside him. There was much about his life that she managed. She set up the golf games with his friends. She policed his diet, given the heart trouble that had dogged him for decades. She diluted his wine with soda water.
She typed and edited the novels he wrote by hand.
Ms. Arakawa was a classical pianist, born in Hawaii. She met Mr. Hackman in Los Angeles at a fitness center where she had a part-time job. He had forgotten his entry card, and she refused to let him in, according to Rodney Hatfield, a friend. They married in 1991.
She also apparently took on the role of sole caregiver as he endured the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s.”
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In this bitter of recent life lessons, we learn that care takers need caregivers too, always, even when life seems normal from the exterior of our place in this world.
– SK Eric John Erfourth and the KT Education Committee of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Minnesota
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