( EW.com ) -- Since Lou Reed 's death on Sunday , posts on blogs and social networks have been going up 24/7 . Many , touching accounts of how the legend 's music changed their lives . ( Guilty . ) Others , tearful RIP sentiments embedding favorite songs and YouTube clips eulogizing the rock iconoclast . ( Guilty again . ) For the lucky few , memories of The One Time They Ran Into Lou Reed ; sometimes he was a total crank , sometimes he was a prince . ( Sadly , none to share . ) But the best ( and most anticipated ) post about Lou Reed came Thursday , and evokes what has been sorely lacking in the personal remembrances : `` incredible joy . '' Writing for the East Hampton Star , Reed 's widow Laurie Anderson reminds us that Lou Reed lived a beautiful life , had one last perfect day , and that because of it , and the memories and songs he 's left us , it is indeed a `` beautiful fall ! '' EW : Lou Reed , though a hipster , gave the rock underground a glow of beauty . Read Laurie Anderson 's full obituary below . Try to fight back that smileâ€ ” and tear . Or do n't , actually . Just feel , as Anderson intends , the `` incredible joy . '' To our neighbors : . What a beautiful fall ! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light . Water surrounding us . Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years , and even though we 're city people this is our spiritual home . Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs . And we made it ! Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature . He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air . Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life . Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us . â€ ” Laurie Anderson . his loving wife and eternal friend . See the original story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
Reed 's widow wrote of his passing . Says he asked her to get him out of the hospital . Comment: