Catching up a little.

Well. We've been out in California since Friday, February 3rd. My mother-in-law passed away Sunday the 5th. It was peaceful, as far as that goes, but as anyone might guess, it's never easy. I can't really write about it properly at this point, in some ways because so many things happened so quickly, but also due to other more technical considerations: I have almost no access to the internet and what little I do have is on dial-up and I can't abide dial-up. Also I'm using a mac and safari isn't displaying all the blogger options.

Points I'd like to consider: post-death rituals, ways we remember the life not the death, and the business of dying.

However, the entire trip hasn't been dealing with funerals; for one thing, young children won't stand for it. We've had the opportunity to visit many great parks, some with space-age era play structures, like a 4-story tall rocket ship and the tallest slide I've seen in a long time (most slides these days are tame numbers, rarely having their tops out of reach of a parent's hand). This slide was a classic old metal slide that stood about twelve feet tall. Beautiful. I should have brought some wax paper to wax it down...

Photos perhaps when I'm able.