It's All Very Strange

[lydamorehouse]

We're headed up to Grand Rapids, Minnesota starting on Thursday afternoon. We're interring Shawn's dad's ashes at his grave(s) -- he actually as two: one with his first wife, Shawn's mother, and the other with his second wife, Margaret. Both of whom have plots in the same cemetery. His final request was to be physically split between the two.

That ought to be odd.

But this ceremony is important because this is the one that Mason will be included in. His job is going to be two put a bouquet of flowers on each grave after the sprinkling of ashes. We were going to leave on Thursday morning, but it so happens that Mason's school is having class picture day that day. This will be a group picture that includes everyone in attendance that day, plus the teacher and teaching assistant. Did you have one of those? I did. But only, I think through elementary school -- maybe even only the first few grades. Still, it'll be nice. That way we can always have a picture of Jarius, Mason's best friend.

And Tina. Mason has a girlfriend of sorts, named Tina. He and one of the other boys, Liam (?), actually fight over who gets to sit next to her. Like, kicking, shoving fighting. This sort of behavior seems about twelve years early, doesn't it?

Anyway, I'm headed off early to the post office. I'm sending off a couple of packages of the AngeLINK series to some new fans. One who guessed Tate Hallaway's other identity correctly (there's a little contest on her FAQ page), and another who came across Archangel Protocol through his library. As I was telling xochiqueztl the other day, it's sort of like the universe KNOWS I've started work on the prequel. Fan letters have been showing up in my inbox for a book that's not only out-of-print, but nearly eight years old.

It's all very strange.

Comments

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

From my experience with dealing with my parents' ashes:

you might want to check that the portion you use is fine enough to sprinkle. My experience was that the ashes were not uniform in size. This freaked me out a fair amount.

Thats true

[shenjanno.livejournal.com]

From my one time work in the death industry (hitman) I found the ashes are usually surprisingly... chunky. Mostly bone bits and what not, but still... disconcerting to say the least.