Right down to your first experience with an open casket for a first memorial service assignment our lives have followed a similar trajectory. I’d seen plenty of dead people as a CPE chaplain, just no one made up by the mortician. I was just old enough to be ordained (24) and my assignment looked more unsettling propped up in the casket all gussied up than someone whose soul departed in the ER from a heart attack.
Thank you, Blaney for this revealing and thoughtful. Look at our future. One thing my Ego looks forward to is your presence in my life, via Substack now. And your more visually oriented zone notes. I do enjoy and learn from your writing down your thoughts.
Right down to your first experience with an open casket for a first memorial service assignment our lives have followed a similar trajectory. I’d seen plenty of dead people as a CPE chaplain, just no one made up by the mortician. I was just old enough to be ordained (24) and my assignment looked more unsettling propped up in the casket all gussied up than someone whose soul departed in the ER from a heart attack.
Thank you, Blaney for this revealing and thoughtful. Look at our future. One thing my Ego looks forward to is your presence in my life, via Substack now. And your more visually oriented zone notes. I do enjoy and learn from your writing down your thoughts.
A lovely reflection, Blayney, although you had me wondering if a "a cark suit" was some kind of special funeral garment!