After a brief stop at home following a remembrance gathering for my mother, the Divine Mrs. M and I will be making another road trip to Long Island to attend the funeral of her older sister. That makes 2 weddings and 2 deaths in our extended families during the latter half of 2023. As my sister remarked at Mom's remembrance, we are now the old folks and as evidenced by my sister-in-law's death on Saturday, we will be passing from this mortal coil in all too few years.
I refuse to go on a rant about how ours and previous generations have screwed the environment and created an existential dread overtaking our descendants as they try to deal with the mess we have left to them. There are solutions to every crisis if we will only work together to find them.
The passing of older generations and the ascendance of youth has been going on since the our ancestors buried their parents with tools and decorations to accompany them on their journey to what they hoped would be better place than the short, brutish existence most of them had known. We participate in the ceremonies associated with weddings and funerals to affirm our collective spirit. To the newly married, I wish you a long and happy life. To those recently deceased, may you rest in peace. To the rest of us, may we carry on for as long as we are able.
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