Condolences & expressions of sympathy go out to the family & friends of Joshua Stein, a long time massage therapist in T-Beach (including at JAKES' Driftwood Spa) over the loss of his extremely talented, socially-conscious playwright father, Joseph Stein.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/25/AR2010102505259.html?wp rss=rss_print/metro

We join in our condolences to Joshua. His father was 98 and had a record of amazing accomplishments. This was a man who lived life to its fullest--all the way to the very end of his time on earth.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/25/arts/AP-US-Obit-Joseph-Stein.html?_r= 1&emc=eta1

Great individual one of the early giant of broadway

My condolences Joshua. I havn't seen you in a while. Hope to see you in TB.

Best, turey.

My deepest condolences to Joshua and his family. May you find comfort in knowing many of us are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers.

SUNRISE...SUNSET (from Fiddler...)

(Tevye)
Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?

(Golde)
I don't remember growing older
When did they?

(Tevye)
When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he grow to be so tall?

(Golde)
Wasn't it yesterday
When they were small?

(Men)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze

(Women)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

(Tevye)
What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?

(Golde)
Now they must learn from one another
Day by day

(Perchik)
They look so natural together

Hodel)
Just like two newlyweds should be

(Perchik & Hodel)
Is there a canopy in store for me?

(All)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

Thank you Elder...Joseph Stein... for the canopy (chuppah) circling and emanating your wisdom and the long shadow that it casts.

One of my oldest memories of Joshua was in his days of trailer-ing his collapsable massage table behind his bike and he might stop at the open air forum that was the old Trans Love Cafe to amuse his company about show-time and comic movies, especially Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood:Men In Tights, High Anxiety, Dracula: Dead & Loving It & on & on)...only to realize now how deeply steeped his father and, possibly, by blood, this world coloured Joshua's own.
You see his father, Joseph, comes out of the writing team for a humanist comedy laugh-factory (Sid Caesar's groundbreaking 50's TV show, Your Show of Shows).

His writing buddies were Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks recognizable writer-directors, some still contributing to pleasurable entertainment.

In Joshua's concerns with the health and well-being of his neighbours in the greater T-Beach (including concerns with the community ambulance), and his wry cheer perhaps the father and son are recognizable in one another...One may even call his sensibility: A hands-on approach.

"There are no limitations to the subject for a musical...just as there are no limitations to the subject for a play or a novel. The only limitation that I can see is that it has to have an honesty about the relationship of people to each other." (Joseph Stein)

My condolences, Joshua.

Joshua,so very sorry to hear of the passing of your Dad.My condolences to you and Daniel and Diane.

WOW! I didn't realise that TB had connections to such distinguished people. My condolences to Mr Stein. Fiddler on the Roof is one of my favourite Musical.

My condolences to you, Joshua.

I thank all of you who responded so warmly and generously to the news of my father's passing. He never made it to Treasure Beach ( he didnt want to travel so far at his age and in precarious health) but he listened to my tales of life with the people there and we would both remark at how similar the lives of rural village Jamaicans seemed to be with the characters of Fiddler on the Roof set in rural Russia of a century ago - their warmth, their humor, their troubles, their love of God, their perseverance through difficult times, their joys and sorrows. Two days ago there was a a lovely memorial service for my Dad in New York attended by hundreds of friends and family. I'm sorry most of you reading this never met him- he could make you laugh in the first five minutes of meeting him, and after that you would have been friends forever. Thanks again for your warm wishes. See you in TB. One Love, Joshua

Joshua Lee:
The last lines of your poem from your website seem so related to lyrics of spiritual humanity steeped in your dad's versions of Fiddler or Zorba and all the striving summed up in the bracing Hebrew toast: La Chaim ("To Life")

...This breath,
a magical alchemy fueling the universe,

all affirm the gentle grace,
the gutteral pleasure,
the essential wonder
of this one body lifetime.

What matters?
Food, sleep, companionship,
air and water, understanding,
a little sweet music,
bread with butter,
true love,
deeper sleep yet,
and dreams.
Joshua Lee Stein

Those of us, who have been intrigued by the study of the energies visibly detected around the human body (from the days of Kirlian Photography), are so pleased that in your healing practice the reading of the AURA (its harmonies & disturbances) has been relevant in your therapeutic bodywork ...Saints do have halos, do they not? Is there not some etheric light around His Holiness the 14th Dali Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)?...Painters, the likes of Marc Chagall have peered into his subjects coloured exaltations, nuh?

If you can read from all of US the glowing rainbow fields that your father's contributions & consciousness in this world has kindled, you too should be filled with a hearty-peaceful astral quality.

LINK: Joshua's Why Jamaica? website
www.joshualeestein.com/whyjamaica.html

Sorry to hear about your loosing your dad. When I lost my mom last year I went through a terrible time. Thank God this passes and a new love and appreciation blooms. God bless and keep you.

Lillian