Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire
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If you get the opportunity, the Mennonite folks near Osage make a mighty fine strawberry rhubarb pie; especially paired with a scoop of vanilla 
especially paired with a scoop of vanilla
This is what happens when you yell at a young raccoon on your balcony. You literally scare the piss out of him!
We haven't talked corgis lately.
I was sitting on path along the shore of a small lake a couple of days ago trying to get photos of croaking frogs. Guy and his corgi came walking down the path. Next thing I knew I have a corgi in my lap licking my face.
I was sitting on path along the shore of a small lake a couple of days ago trying to get photos of croaking frogs. Guy and his corgi came walking down the path. Next thing I knew I have a corgi in my lap licking my face.
Sitting here on yet another disaster recovery test. Scrolling through facebook reels and came across a video with this
Just the fact that they're wearing ISU shirts. I couldn't get a screenshot without the captions
So random thoughts on end of life celebrations/funerals. I wonder how they will continue to evolve over the next few decades. I don't know what I would want in my own stuff but I feel like with my parents and older generations the visitation was/is nearly a must go to if you knew the person or a family member. Now my generation (or at least our friends) did not come to the visitation or and only one or two texted MrsWx when her grandfather recently passed away. Granted it was nearly ten years ago I had no friends come or even message me when my grandfather passed away.
Are visitations a thing of the past? Is that a bad thing?
Are visitations a thing of the past? Is that a bad thing?
The visitations are a way to gather and talk to the family outside of the funeral setting. Frequently, families want to "cloister" after the service, so the friends and associates are left to just filter out of the sanctuary. It also stems back to when they called it a "viewing", with that whole open coffin thing. Fewer people are going for that now.
For me, my plan is to have them take any usable parts I have left (granted, there are fewer of those as I age) and turn the rest to ash and put the ashes in the root ball of a sycamore sapling and plant it somewhere. If I can't be tall in life, I'll be tall in death. As for actual services, that's really up to my surviving family. The service is for THEM, not for me. I won't be there.
Personally I don't want any sort of end of life celebration for me.
My parents didn't want anything either.
