Rest in Peace
Do You Wonder..?15 total reviews
Comment from barbara.wilkey
Thank you for sharing this contest entry with us. I can feel the emotion and you only used eight words. That's talent. I enjoyed reading and want to wish you luck with the contest.
reply by the author on 19-Sep-2024
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Thank you for sharing this contest entry with us. I can feel the emotion and you only used eight words. That's talent. I enjoyed reading and want to wish you luck with the contest.
Comment Written 19-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 19-Sep-2024
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You are sos nice, which isn't a surprise.
Look mom, I only used eight words again.
... and once more.
Thank you
Comment from T B Botts
Hi Tom,
Jan and I were looking around at the cemeteries in the area when we moved here, but weren't impressed all that much by what we saw. I knew I didn't want to be buried back in Ohio where I grew up, and I don't want to be buried in Hoonah where I spent the majority of my life. I think I'd like part of my ashes spread over the water down there where I spent so much time fishing, but neither of us will have a marker anywhere I don't think.
Thanks for sharing this.
Blessings,
Tom
reply by the author on 15-Sep-2024
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Hi Tom,
Jan and I were looking around at the cemeteries in the area when we moved here, but weren't impressed all that much by what we saw. I knew I didn't want to be buried back in Ohio where I grew up, and I don't want to be buried in Hoonah where I spent the majority of my life. I think I'd like part of my ashes spread over the water down there where I spent so much time fishing, but neither of us will have a marker anywhere I don't think.
Thanks for sharing this.
Blessings,
Tom
Comment Written 15-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 15-Sep-2024
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Makes sense. I mean once any son and daughter and whatever friends surpass our years, is anyone going to know who lies beneath the rock we've chosen?
Comment from Ric Myworld
That little fellow sure seems to be fascinated by the kite in the sky. I remember the times when I too could spend days do just the same thing. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 13-Sep-2024
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That little fellow sure seems to be fascinated by the kite in the sky. I remember the times when I too could spend days do just the same thing. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 13-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 13-Sep-2024
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Might be, but the idea was me - being dead - asking myself if anyone will visit.
Thanks for your comment.
Comment from karenina
You aren't posting often (a condition I am experiencing)-- but you surely hit a theme many worry about!
I want to be cremated, and my ashes spread in my favorite place.
I don't worry, oddly about who will remember me once I'm gone.
My goal (which I fall short of more often than I care to admit)
Is to gild the Lily with the kindness of any I meet in this life...and in some small way make their day better.
The rest? The judgment? I'll leave to God and hope he's grading on a Bell Curve!
Excellent, Tom.
Great to see your post!
Karenina
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2024
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You aren't posting often (a condition I am experiencing)-- but you surely hit a theme many worry about!
I want to be cremated, and my ashes spread in my favorite place.
I don't worry, oddly about who will remember me once I'm gone.
My goal (which I fall short of more often than I care to admit)
Is to gild the Lily with the kindness of any I meet in this life...and in some small way make their day better.
The rest? The judgment? I'll leave to God and hope he's grading on a Bell Curve!
Excellent, Tom.
Great to see your post!
Karenina
Comment Written 12-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2024
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How big do you think the bell curve will be to meet my needs but It gives me hope
Thank you
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RUKM? You're all heart! You can't fool me!
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You stumped me. RUKM? But how easy can that have been. I am as slow as a snail racing the tortoise who was never noticed in its race with the hare.
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LOL. I have grandkids who speak in "Text" -- Are You Kidding Me somehow becomes "RUKM" --
That's okay, for a year I signed off with LOL because I thought it meant Love You Lots...
Who knew it was Laugh Out Loud?
I wonder how many friends and family flinched at that!
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Clever - I would not have figured that out without your friendly aid
Comment from Sugarray77
Great job on this write and a great entry for this prompt. Your philosophical and retrospective verse does cause us to stop and ponder the questions ~ who will remember us? I wish you luck in the contest, Tom.
Melissa
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2024
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Great job on this write and a great entry for this prompt. Your philosophical and retrospective verse does cause us to stop and ponder the questions ~ who will remember us? I wish you luck in the contest, Tom.
Melissa
Comment Written 12-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2024
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Your astute question as to "who will remember us" and a reciprocal thought even bigger... "Who will forget us?"
Thank you.
Comment from GWHARGIS
This was very interesting and a unique perspective on death and dying. Will you be whisked away or will you linger until they call tour number. Who, indeed, will smell your lily. Great poem. Gretchen
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2024
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This was very interesting and a unique perspective on death and dying. Will you be whisked away or will you linger until they call tour number. Who, indeed, will smell your lily. Great poem. Gretchen
Comment Written 11-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2024
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Appreciation is an art form, and you have painted a doozie. Thank you.
Comment from Cindy Decker 3
Tom,
This is such a sweet poem, complemented by a nice photo to ponder. A flower might be planted in our memory, but I wonder, too, a few generations from now if I will ever be remembered by extended family.
Nice work.
Best wishes,
Cindy
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2024
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Tom,
This is such a sweet poem, complemented by a nice photo to ponder. A flower might be planted in our memory, but I wonder, too, a few generations from now if I will ever be remembered by extended family.
Nice work.
Best wishes,
Cindy
Comment Written 11-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2024
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How extended? Just think of the billions of markers who no longer have friends and family. Then again, do friends even visit their passed pals? Thanks for the remark.
Comment from Debi Pick Marquette
Well Tom, this is the first time I have seen a post notification in my box for you for a very long time so I knew I had to come say hello. But what a time to do it. I suppose you may have a point, but I am hoping just to be remembered as the loving wife, the always there for them, mom and as the crazy and fun grandma. '
If I get that much out of them I will be in 7th Heaven. LOL...ok I will settle for the first Heaven. Take care, my friend. I miss ya. Love, Debi
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2024
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Well Tom, this is the first time I have seen a post notification in my box for you for a very long time so I knew I had to come say hello. But what a time to do it. I suppose you may have a point, but I am hoping just to be remembered as the loving wife, the always there for them, mom and as the crazy and fun grandma. '
If I get that much out of them I will be in 7th Heaven. LOL...ok I will settle for the first Heaven. Take care, my friend. I miss ya. Love, Debi
Comment Written 11-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2024
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Somehow I have responded three times and saved only to still show as if I have not 😵💫
Comment from jmdg1954
Honestly, in response to the poems question... no.
My dilemma, is... when I pass and lay at rest in my coffin, who will come to pay their last respects.
Not many is my guess...
Haven't seen you post in a while. I'm about 45 days since my last post.
Cheers,
John
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2024
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Honestly, in response to the poems question... no.
My dilemma, is... when I pass and lay at rest in my coffin, who will come to pay their last respects.
Not many is my guess...
Haven't seen you post in a while. I'm about 45 days since my last post.
Cheers,
John
Comment Written 11-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2024
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I understand
Comment from Marilyn Hamilton
This is pretty deep stuff for a Tuesday morning. That is a very sweet photo. Let's hope that precious lily pictured has a long and happy life. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2024
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This is pretty deep stuff for a Tuesday morning. That is a very sweet photo. Let's hope that precious lily pictured has a long and happy life. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 11-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2024
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Wilco and out
