Dates Inscribed in Stone- Podcast 163

Dates Inscribed In Stone

Dates Inscribed In Stone

My husband and I went to a funeral today after which time we went to the cemetery for the internment.

Then we walked around and visited Tom’s family and their tombstones. Tom knew every single person buried in that cemetery.
This reminded me of the time I went to a cemetery with my parents. They pointed out tombstones and remembered galavanting with people in the home town of Lancaster PA. They told story after story of nearly everyone in that cemetery. Dad said, “Remember Charlie?” and went on to talk about the experiences they had with that person.

It was like walking in a different time zone. It was the first time I felt like my parents in that cemetery so many years ago.

For some reason, we could not find cousin Gregory. And then we realized we had parked in a lot of people and we had to leave.
The funeral was in Littlestown Pa, where my husband grew up. “The town that time forgot,” is how our kids describe it. Yet that’s what it’s like in a cemetery, too. Time does not exist in those places. You are transported to another dimension.
I realized today that Tom’s dad passed a mere seven months after my dad, on July 7, 2001. I knew it at the time, then forgot. Seeing those dates inscribed on stone helped me remember.


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4 Responses to “Dates Inscribed in Stone- Podcast 163”

  1. D.D. Delaney

    Great podcast, Kate. Significant!

  2. kateloving

    Thanks so much Delaney–I keep hammering away at these topics!!

  3. Samantha West

    Great podcast good to remind people about hospice I know what you mean about old cemeteries I love visiting the ones in Clrarfield county where my fathers family is from it’s a rual community. My daughter and I were
    So struck one Memorial Day at all the veteran flags from the civil war to Afghanistan. What they had sacarficed
    As a community

  4. kateloving

    The cemetary experience is a much needed one. I highly recommend it.

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