I don’t go to the cemeteries often. I honestly haven’t visited my grandparents since COVID. My mom and brother are cremated and I have a spot for their remains.
However I went this past Friday merely to see my recently departed Aunt Betty since it’s a mile from my home.
The grave and flowers looked good, the plate/headstone hasn’t yet arrived. I ended up walking the entire cemetery as Canaan United Methodist has some of my family and people I grew up around that were older when I was younger.
I walked down from grave to grave and I had a moment. I could see these people, hear their voices, remember their personalities. They shaped my childhood and now adulthood. I’m sure if I walk in other cemeteries it will have the same effect.
It was quite touching, including seeing the older graves from the 1900s. I don’t say this often or at all but I would recommend an annual trip to your family cemetery (preferably with other family members) to reflect and focus.
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