Your parents . . . they were crematedcorrect
Yes.
Were they interred
Yes.
Yes
You uncomfortable talking about this
Depends.
What are you driving
at?
Im not driving Im asking
Asking
because I have a sense theyre nearby an youve not mentioned visiting them since Id guess they were interred
he shifted his stance
It isnt my intention to make you
uncomfortable We can change the subject
if you rather Im curious is all
I don’t visit because they’re not
there.
Their mortal remains ar . .
.
. I don’t have to visit their mortal remains . . to remember them.
No Yadon
The cemetery throws you
off
he stood boltupright
Throws me off? How do you mean throws me off?
Makes you uncomfortable
Uncomfortable? Why would I be?
Because people donusually do
things theyre uncomfortable doing
Your mothers been dead
fifteensixteen years whichif Im correct means
you visited her last when you interred your father Wha its
been three years
Yes. Three years.
Is there a family plot
he turned his head to a side like
a perplexed bird
Family plot?
Other crypts for family members
Crypts? No. No.
They chose to lay there.
Do you think they laythat they chose
crypts because they thought family would
visit
his countenance hardened I don’t
know what they thought.
Awright Cant assume I understand
Your Dad visited
your Mom
Yes, he did.
Is it likely because he did because from what youve said he understood he
was influential particularly for you that he might have thought youyour siblings would
visit his grave site your Moms
Your
sisters visit
They do.
Yadon
he slumped his spine give way a bit
Why donya
he cleared his throat As I said . . they’re not there.
No Theyre not
However their graves are
touchstonesaffirmations They were
here They are memorialised
Visiting them would be a genuine acknowledgment
of what they meant to youthat they provided for you and your siblings
he shook his head
What’s this
about? You trying to guilt me?
No guilt Its about being human an recognising your mortality
I understand that aside from your
immediate family you grewup with few other family I grewup surrounded
by family dozens of aunts and uncles sixtysix first cousins couldnt toss a stone without hitting
one
Ill be cremated though not contained Then ifyawill part of their atmosphere my girls can take comfort Im about he
chuckled Aroundanabout
Yet you interred your wife’s
ashes in her mother’s grave.
Yes we did
Since the day her mother died
Cindi desperately missed her The girls and I decided that laying her with her motherthem being together would be comfortingwould be right
Comforted in death
A sentiment that eludes you
Yes. I suppose to each his own.
Yes
Yare missing out Yare choosing not to celebrate life
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