The funeral for J.H. went well...more than well.
Her son did the speaking.
I told him that I hoped someone would say something that nice at my funeral. And I meant it.
Not a large crowd--30 or so--but a very attentive one.
Eucharist went flawlessly with the burial office.
Lots of food afterwards.
Funerals aren't my favorite thing, but this one went more than well....
I have a funeral tomorrow of someone I never met.
Those are the worst.
But her son is giving the sermon.
She was a great member of Trinity before I got there.
I'll do communion.
There is no interment.
It will be fine.
I hate when people die....
Just before I went online for my Tuesday group, I read an article in Trinity Church's newsletter.
B.S. who creates the newsletter posted about a mall being built on the Green in front of Trinity. It was fascinating.
I couldn't image how it would happen, but looked forward to watching it go up.
Then, an hour afterwards, one of the people on my facebook group who lives in Florida said: "We had two inches of snow last night."
I was amazed--then he said, "April fool."
Then I realized the newsletter was an April Fool's joke.
I am really an April Fool....
Tomorrow is Bern's birthday.
For 15 days, until my birthday, she is only 2 years younger than me!
We were high school sweethearts. I met her because I thought I might need a foreign language for some of the colleges I was applying to.
But it was Latin 1. I was a senior and she was a freshman but both in the same class.
Latin was the only foreign language offered at our little high school
I went to college and three years later she joined me at WVU.
I then went to Harvard Divinity School and after a year came home and we were married. She went to college in Boston the next year.
Then we moved back to Morgantown and I was a social worker while she finished college.
That was a long time ago.
54 years, believe it or not!
Two kids and four grandkids later, here we are.
I love her so, so much.
She is my wife and she is my life.
Happy birthday, Bern....
I was out on the back porch this afternoon and heard a bird call.
It was something like "tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet-tweet, tweet."
So I whistled it as close as I could.
The bird answered back with an extra 'tweet'.
I responded.
We did it 10 times and I was amazed.
I was talking with a bird!
Though I have no idea what either of us were saying....
I worked for five hours today and am ready to go to H&R Block tomorrow!
Yea!!!
It gets harder to get done every year.
We save all the right stuff--but a year's worth of stuff is STUFF!
But it's done and I'm so relieved.
Probably owe taxes, but we'll see.
I've known him since 1972.
He's a West Virginian, like me.
We've been through a lot together.
Several months ago he fell down the stairs from his apartment and has been recovering ever since.
We're going to his birthday party tonight. There will be lots of mutual friends there.
We gave him a wide wheel chair as his gift. I don't know how long he will continue to need it. Not long, I pray.
I haven't visited him as much as Bern has since the accident.
I just can't stand to see him like that.
I love him too much.
Alas.
