Good morning!
As some of you know, I spent a few
days in the past week getting a letterbox ready to plant in memory of Daniel on
the fourth anniversary of our accident. Yesterday evening Paul, Amena, Joseph
and I went to a cemetery (I can’t tell you which one because it would be
cheating) in Hubbardston and planted it. We walked all over the cemetery and
found some interesting things including a headstone indicating the man buried
there had served in the military but he
had no flag. I told Joseph to remember where he was so we could give him one
next May. Anyway, it was good and this morning I was thinking. . .
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| Log book, stamp, box, paper towel for wrapping the stamp in, and plastic bag all ready to go. Yes, we did make the log book and carve the stamp ourselves. Because that's just what we do. |
I’ve been reading the Harry Potter
books and watched the movies last week. If you have read the books or watched
the movies, you may recall that Nearly
Headless Nick invites Harry to his Deathday Party. Harry goes with Ron and
Hermione and they don’t have a particularly good time because everyone else
there is dead, the food is all rotten, and it is in a cold dungeon.
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| Log book, stamp, etc., in the bag. |
After planting the letterbox
yesterday, I got to thinking—what a brilliant idea is having a Deathday Party!
I mean, it doesn’t make us miss the person any less, but it does take away some
of the sadness and it certainly gives us something to do to get our mind off
being sad. Then, I was thinking more. We celebrate birthdays so celebrating a
deathday really isn’t much different because they’re just flip sides of a coin.
I mean, when a person is born, they are just moving from one plane of existence
to another and when they die they are doing the same. Do they celebrate
deathdays as birthdays in the spirit world? I wonder.
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| Letterbox ready to be planted. Honestly, it was as much fun planting as it is finding others so I think more planting will be in our future. |
Anyway, the next one coming up is
Papa; I guess we should start planning.
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