Wednesday, February 3, 2010

What will yours say?

What would you like for your epitaph to say?  It may seem a grim topic and I don't intend for it to be, but have you thought about it?  If you could sum things up in one single sentence what would you like for it to say?

Every summer I go back to Massachusetts with my mom.  The Homeland.  Now that my grandparents are gone we spend the majority of our time on Cape Cod as opposed to Sudbury, where they lived.  We still go back and visit their grave, plant flowers, see the house, and visit friends.  That usually consists of a day or two at most.  A couple summers ago we took a day trip to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA.  We also visited the bridge where the Shot Heard Around the World was fired (c'mon people, the beginning of the Revolutionary War?  Yeah, I knew you knew what I was talking about) and a few other historical landmarks.  I loved the cemetery.  Normally all that stuff freaks me out but this was so interesting.  Like most of the other cemeteries in the area, there are tombstones that date back to the 1700's.  I found it interesting how all the women had their husband's name on their tombstones.  Like mine would say, "Mrs. Christopher Peters".  Many well known locals are buried there.  We took rubbings of Nathanial Hawthorne's grave, Louisa May Alcott's grave, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's grave.  What struck me the most was the grave of a woman who died during the Revolutionary War.  Her epitaph is what I hope mine will say some day.

"She made home a happy place."

Thanks to my old school chum Ralph for bringing up the topic.

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