There is a little blue sky out to the Southwest so there is hope of maybe a sun break or two. Well, on the far side of Thanksgiving. It’s all turkey sandwiches from now on, which is a major good thing. So, our meal was great, thank you Rebecca and Henna for the food engineering. The TV football was fun. We had good prayers and a field trip.
Not every holiday dinner has a field trip but I thought that it was a good idea and everyone honored me on it. I drove the four of us to the Vashon Cemetery to see my new plot. Kind of a crazy deal but what the heck. I think Henna got a little weirded out but what are in-laws for? So there is the pic of Felipé checking out the view. There I got Marynell to my right and Dale to my left, close neighbors.
(photo W Volker)
Well yea, I thought that it was a good idea. Sometimes you just have to have some fun with stuff. Maybe other people don’t quite get it always. Oh, and speaking of fun, we also listened to the recording of Alice’s Restaurant and Massacree. That is a piece of history there.
So off we go to turkey sandwich land. Maybe some leaf raking land and some football land in our future too. Thanks for checking in.
gratitude over all loves, Felipé.
I am just imaging the chit-chat between Marynell and Dale after you left!
You are actually doing what Pope Francis has instructed: smile and laugh ❤️
“…Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor.
Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy,
and to be able to share it with others.”
Saint Thomas More’s “Prayer for Good Humor”
Love you,
Cris
Cris ~ thank you for your insights and humor. I will post this on the blog today since it is such a good follow up to yesterday’s. Somehow I wanted to have fun with it all. Thinking of Veranda, Felipé.x
Well done Felipé
Being realistic about the future only increases our JOY and APPRECIATION of the present..
Just yesterday I was discussing the end of my earthly journey with my neighbour……….
For now.
We Journey on………….
William ~ yes, we journey on, we know how to do that. And do that in style too! We have joy and appreciation for the present! Felipé.
Very brave of you to try a grave on as you would a glove but I suppose that it comes to us all from King’s to pauper’s.all of the recently deceased members of my family,my Dad and Aunt, have been cremated and therefore we’ve not had to worry about land to put them in.my Grandmother who died around 1984 was,as I recall, the last member of our family to be buried as was her wish I believe I don’t know if it was based on religious reasons or just plain old tradition.guessing her husband,my Grandfather,was cremated has he died of throat cancer but that was way back in 1969 and I was a toddler so not too sure.He,my other Grandmother ,who died of liver cancer, and me, mycosis fungoides lymphoma,are ,as far as I’m aware, the only members of my family to have cancers.as the Holymen say….”dust to dust….”.
Kevan ~ in my mind I need to strike a balance between having a place for future interested visitors and a concern for the environment. So, I wanted a specific place with a marker and I want a method of cramming remains into an urn with the least amount of commotion. Yea, times change and we look at things differently than former generations and we adapt. Thanks for checking in, Felipé.
There’s a song about “being on the green side of the grass”. Your photo looks like it could be the album cover.
Dave ~ hey, hello to Austin! Oh, just trying to have fun in the in between moments. Felipé.
I start chemotherapy treatment tomorrow,a drug called Bexarotene, tradename Targretin, and to be honest I had thought quite a lot about what happens when you die prior to this but not so much what happens when I die! I suppose that my little universe will close since I can’t be certain that there’s anything outside of my own head!?could all be an illusion…. solipsism if I recall correctly is the name that philosophers name such a position.but as your own little window shut perhaps a greater one opens?you only live twice!
Kevan ~ it is the great leveler, this death thing. Thank you for being on a parallel path with me. Stay close, Felipé.