I felt like such a bad boy, and it felt so good. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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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