on dealing with it all
a favorite cousin of ours challenged us
with his seemingly casual comment,
I told him of being in a car with close relatives of my wife's,
I felt it was time to deal with the funeral and life of a well-loved cousin,
I was surprised when the conversation focused on sports,
not on the extraordinary life of Paul Holman,
I wanted to focus on the person who has left us
and whose body we were interring,
our cousin shared the wisdom of his take on it all:
"These folks have been avoiding talking about death their whole lives. . . "
how sad that our culture has so much trouble
growing up enough to see and honor
the harshness of this reality.
by Henry H. Walker
August 12, '25
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