My husband, Michael Bonner, died suddenly and unexpectedly in the late afternoon of May 24, 2019, a few hours after I spoke with him

from Italy. I took this photograph the folloeing day, on May 25th, before friends found him in our Ann Arbor home. I was told on the 26,

on another gloomy and wintry Sunday morning in the norwestern Alps. Michael was a historian of the formative period of Islam, from pre-

Islamic Arabia to the creation of the caliphate, but his passion was classical music, which he knew profoundly. He played the violin and the

viola, most often in quartets. We were married for 29 years. Initiallly, this project was a way to preserve and share his life through the

objects which embodied his soul, his minds, his skills and his wit. Now it itnarrated both his life and my grief