Today, of all the thousands of innocent people, whose lives were brutally snuffed out on flights and on the ground from terrorist attacks on symbols of US might, we in Treasure Beach can bow our heads remembering a special soul who walked our walk, lived kindly among us, and hummed love, grace and wisdom from her sparkling being...Berry Berenson Perkins.
Who spoke reams of truth when it was said?:
We always thought we'd look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we'd look back on our laughter and cry.
Here's an excerpt of a Tribute, written by Paul Chesne, recalling how he had helped set up Berry's son, Elvis' first solo show at the Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles, California, back in 2001 and how excited his mother was to support the launching of his musical career.
Being the ebullient, ever-loving soul that she was, Elvis's mom conspired with some of her close friends in LA to surprise him and come see his first show. Knowing her it made complete sense. She loved her boys Oz and El. She wouldn't have missed it for the world.
...I remember not knowing what to do, but just hugging Elvis when hours later the airline finally called to confirm that his mom boarded the plane.
I remember when we all held hands in a circle out on the deck and Pat Ast sang the Lord's Prayer and a little bumble bee kept landing on our hands forcing us to break the circle and laugh right in the middle of all that pain. Elvis had written the song "While You Were Sleeping" a couple years before for his mom, and in that song he calls her, "My Honey B."
He played that song at her memorial a few days later.
Berry was trusting and kind to a fault. She helped teach me that not only what you create in some defined artistic medium is art. Whether it be music or painting or some other academically restrained model. But instead that all of life itself is an art. Loving, eating, laughing, having an open heart. Going to the grocery store. Smiling. Everything.
It's such a lofty goal to even try to strive to be as free and caring as her. And I'm not so good at it all the time. But I learned a lot from her. And she helped open my eyes to the greatness within other people who embrace life so fully. With so much forgiveness and love. Like my mom and dad. And so many others that I am so lucky to know.
And I remember thinking whoever that was sitting next to her on that plane was so lucky. Because she would have made them feel so comfortable and important in those few moments of meeting them. Like she made me feel. And every one else that met her.
Berry's Son, Elvis, Sings a Tribute Song to his Mother, While You Were Sleeping...Inspired years before her death while she was napping at her Cape Cod home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjN8kyK14wk
Film Culture Mag Link:
http://filmculturemag.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/911-tribute-to-berinthia-berry-be renson-perkins-american-airlines-flight-11
Doomsday by Elvis Perkins
And While I forget your name
I forget your sweet face
Till Doomsday fell out again
Man i went wild last night
oh yes i'll pay tonight
but i dont let doomsday bother me
does it bother you?
i know you told me again and again
Will it mean that we wont be friends?
When doomsday rears her ugly head again
And even though you voted that awful man
i'll never refuse your hand
on any given doomsday or the one and only doomsday
Not in all my wildest dreams it never once was seen
that doomsday might fall anywhere near a tuesday
but flight across the skies seein fate before my eyes
there isn't any sense to feel the light
for i dont plan to die
nor should you plan to die
Berry's Son, Elvis, Sings "Doomsday"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWVcvf6OKhc
But ask friends and family members what Berry Berenson Perkins was, and the answer comes to one word: angel.
"If there was ever a person who could be called a living angel, I think Berry was," said Gale Parker, a friend. Her sister, Marisa Berenson, used the word, too. "She touched everybody who met her," she said.
Remember September 11, 2001: A Legacy
www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=91772
9-11 Memorial Site
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcKRm_6n8k
this day changed our life;today-11 years a go,standing at Jakes Front desk-Jason told us the Twin Towers are down -Jasons Father Perry took our both hands and said:now its time to come to Jamaica-so we did and we are very happy-and will never forget axel &andrea