My siblings and I are all converging on Missouri, to lay to rest and pay our respects to our grandmother. She had a long, healthy life, crowded with the challenges and blessings of living for others.
For each of us remaining, it is a time of self-reflection as much as it is a celebration of her life. My sister once said, as scattered and busy as we have all become, probably the only time we’ll all get together will be at weddings and funerals. That has proven to be true, but even at these times we are not all, down to every member of the same generation, able to arrive at the same destination at the same time.
Even so, these occasions we label with words like ‘funeral’ are opportunities to see where we are as individuals and as familiies, and to appreciate the house of love that Grandma built.
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