It’s Thursday. We buried my aunt yesterday. It was an unusually beautiful mild day that started with a private service for her and close family. After that was the Funeral Procession out to the Abraham Lincoln Cemetery where she was put to rest with her husband who passed away roughly 20 years ago. I was doing fairly well after we arrived until the three pipers began playing Amazing Grace on bagpipes. That was hard. We wrapped it up later in the afternoon with a lunch at a local restaurant.

If there’s anything good to come out of this, it was seeing cousins, friends, and other family members that came in from near and far. It was great seeing everyone over this past several days, some of which I hadn’t seen in many, many years. A bittersweet experience. And the older I get, the more frequent these experiences are likely to be. Not sure if I’m ready for this.

-keep