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Thread #90633 Message #1719850
Posted By: Bill D
16-Apr-06 - 10:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: prepared for death
Subject: RE: BS: prepared for death
♫ When the pale axeman strikes his blow,
And takes the warm life from my breast,
Plant by my grave a sapling Oak
And violets of azure crest.
The oaken shaft, the oaken shaft-my staff,
The flowers my epitaph,
The oaken shaft, the oaken shaft-my staff,
The flowers my epitaph.♫
as sung by Utah Phillips (his tune to a poem)
...seems a good attitude to me....except for the 'grave' bit - I don't want a 'location' forever. The oak and flowers can be anywhere...and if anyone remembers why they're there, well fine.
I guess I need to think about it...but like Alice, I have way too much 'stuff' to be going soon..*grin*....I need to give my son a fighting chance and dispose of some of the more...ummmm...'arcane' items in the next 10 years.
It's funny about being in my 60s and becoming aware that I need to consider these things....'cause I was just getting the hang of it all.
"Youth is a wonderful thing....too bad it is wasted on the young"