Tag: cemeteries
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Epitaphs: Part IV
A few simples words about Mortality It was a damp and warm day in mid-August. I stood over the gravesite and heard the locusts singing in the nearby fields. The stone was smooth, given its age and I had to drop to my knees to read the delicate epitaph on the lower half of the…
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Epitaphs: Part II
Less Is More Sometimes, the stories that headstones tell you are long and often full of Biblical references. Some I’ve seen are brief and to the point: “We Will Meet Again in Jesus”. Once in a great while, one runs across an epitaph that is pithy and wholly understated. The photo below is such an…
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The Dearly Departed
I derive a great deal of pleasure by wandering among people who are dead. I have always found graveyards to be ideal places to contemplate life. Understand, however, that there have been times, when shadows lengthen, I find being among the dead is an unsettling experience. But most of the time I find it creatively…
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