re: #221 GeneJockey

We had a memorial service for my Mom, months after she died, when we could all get together (and Dad could handle it), and each of her 6 kids spoke. I made sure to include a couple of my favorite funny memories about her, because that’s who she was. Not a saint, not some perfect person, not Mother Theresa. She was who she was, and some of that was really funny. I could see people smiling as I told the stories, thinking, “Yeah, that was Mom!”

And I remember my Dad and his brother, a couple years after their Dad had died, practically wetting their pants swapping stories about him.

With any luck, people will do that for each of us when the time comes.

We’ll be doing this type of service for my dad in about two weeks. It’s what he wanted, it’s what we’ll do. And since by then it’ll be a bit over a month since he died we hope the raw will be worn down for everyone.