ALWAYS WEAR GLOVES

Just stopping by to drop off the cot and head off to pick up a loved one at air cargo. (NO, not my loved one, their loved one.) Haven't posted in awhile again. Let's see if I can bring something up that will do nicely. ... Nope. There is talk of getting DSL at home. that would be nice wouldn't it. OK, here is what I have: I meet people at their most vulnerable. I am in the the wrong place, at the wrong time. I try not to make it worse. Dead people look better when they are embalmed. Embalming is an art-form. Twenty years from now, no one will be embalmed. People need to have funerals, (or at least some ritualized event that calls attention to the passing of a loved individual and celebrates their life and mourns their death. that is a funeral .) The Flaming Lips rule.

Been awhile. Things have happened. My best friends father died last week. It was a very sad turn of events. I could go long and detailed into the aspects of my friends father's death but I will not. Let us just say that it is a terrible tragedy and has made me reevaluate parts of my life. This was the first time that I had to play the dual role as "friend" and "undertaker". I have taken care of friends loved ones before but not to the extent that this man is to me. I think of him as the brother I don't share an extended family with. He is, and has been intregral to my life for the last ten years or so. SO, needless to say, this was a hard one. We basically did things like we had talked about doing things for years now. Kick out the formal B.S. and get down to the very essense of what makes the funeral ritual a positive one. He did everything at his house, and he did it very well. There was almost no place in ________'s house where you could not