Remember I told you once about my eccentric Uncle Murphy's headstone, the one he got off a headstone salesman in a card game or a business deal gone screwy, can't remember which? And which he kept in the flower bed outside his front door for years, to greet visitors, with the epitaph he chose for himself and everything else carved on it? That his widow and children put on his grave when he finally died, having only to add the date of death?
Well, tonight, rummaging through iPhoto files, I found an image of it. For true. When you're telling stories about Louisiana, you really don't have to make stuff up. Reality is weird enough:
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On the epitaph, some people have character, some are it.
Rod:
I certainly left you tongue-tied, didn't I? That's a rare thing :-)
But you aren't tongue-tied at all about your beloved wife, which is a wonderful thing. Happy Anniversary.
Thanks everyone for your kind comments about our anniversary. And Harvey, about marrying above ourselves, I doubt you and I will ever find more common ground than on that wise observation! I really don't deserve to have the wife I do. She's a total grace.
For those of you who can't understand how two people so opposite on just about every topic imaginable be on the same page when talking about their spouses I believe I have an easy to understand explanation.
The believe in us.
It's really that simple. The most precious gift anyone can give or get and we married into it.
I have ideas for my own epitaph, (who doesn't)?
"So you want to know the secret of life: Sit here, and listen long and carefully to what I have to say, and I will only say it once, so pay careful attention."
or
"The solipsist said: When I die, the universe dies with me.
If you are reading this, I am not the solipsist."
or
"Did you remember to turn off the stove?"
or
"Did you know that the dead live? Here's proof: I am looking at my gravestone, reading this epitaph. Shivers are running up my spine."
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