I don't know about the irony, Bob, but I like those sentiments, and the
cemetery joint . . .
Chris
On 7 Jan 14, at 16:25, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Joan and I have an agreement. (Me and Joan? <g>) The one who goes first is
> cremated, and the survivor takes the ashes to scatter someplace the survivor
> wants to go, not the deceased. For a long time I was sure I would be
> scattered in Switzerland. Now, I'm not so sure. For the moment, Joan is going
> to the standing stones at Lochbuie, on the Isle of Mull.
>
> As for visiting graves, I never do it, unless they are the graves of
> strangers located in some picturesque place. Puttered around a lot of
> cemeteries in Scotland. Have wandered through more than a few here in Maine.
> And, of course, if you go to Boston, cemetery wandering is required.
>
> My paternal grandfather is buried where the afternoon shadow of Thomas
> Wolfe's angel (as in Look Homeward Angel) falls across his grave. He was a
> tyrant, and a giant in my life. He died while I was in the army. When I got
> home, I walked the few miles to the cemetery where he is buried and sat and
> smoked a joint on his grave. More or less made my peace with him that day. He
> was dead and I wasn't, and there was a monumental weight removed from my
> psyche.
>
> Does it count as irony that the shadow of Wolfe's angel falls across my
> grandfather's grave when, as a defense attorney, he destroyed the credibility
> of Thomas Wolfe as a witness during a murder trial in Asheville, NC? (Wolfe
> is not buried beneath the angel. It was sculpted by Wolfe's father, a
> stonecutter in Asheville.)
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