Suddenly there is activity at the cemetery. Other than Memorial Day weekend, in three hundred visits to the cemetery I encounter other visitors less than six times. Now the grounds are busy with annual visitors. The American Legion has placed flags by the stones of veterans who have died. There will be no flag by my grave becasue I never joined the Legion nor will I. It's particularly fitting to remember those who died in America's wars. It's good that people take at least one day to visit their loved one.
For some of us living in the land of grief every day is Memorial Day. The reluctance of others to bring up the deceased for fear of upsetting the bereaved is miss-placed. More problematic to the bereaved is the silence as we wonder "Is the loved one forgotten?" It's not that every moment is consumed with one's loss. Yet, a day does not go by but which the presence of absence is noted.
Takk for alt,
Al
A very typical pose of Joanne.
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