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Today was the viewing for Christina's father, and it was truly heartbreaking. Thank you to Charlotte for coming to support Christina, it meant so much more than you can imagine. My dad and mom came and my mom brought me brownies. A fucking thing, emotions.
We have a church service coming up today at Cavalry around 10:00am. I wrote a paragraph of Keary prose to add to Christina's eulogy. I hope she continues to have strength and can get through her piece.
I wanted to share what I said.
"Dad awoke that last Thursday morning somewhere outside Fairbanks, where the fog allowed the only the briefest hint at darkness amidst a 22 hour long long Arctic summer day. It was on an old schoolbus, his best friend at his side and a camera around his neck that Dad heard that soft voice he had followed without question for so many years. He may have asked why he had been chosen this day so many miles out across the great glaciers and mighty rivers of Alaska, but stared in awe as a great door in the fog was revealed. I'm sure he took in a long, loving look at that green and magical country across which he so loved to travel, and rested his head and his heart upon his soulmate's shoulder where it remains today. He had never questioned, never faltered, and could never regret his beautiful drive along that winding road of life. With his adventurer's spirit anticipating the greatest journey of man, he turned the knob and pushed forward, and God quietly and peacefully shut the door behind him."
We have a church service coming up today at Cavalry around 10:00am. I wrote a paragraph of Keary prose to add to Christina's eulogy. I hope she continues to have strength and can get through her piece.
I wanted to share what I said.
"Dad awoke that last Thursday morning somewhere outside Fairbanks, where the fog allowed the only the briefest hint at darkness amidst a 22 hour long long Arctic summer day. It was on an old schoolbus, his best friend at his side and a camera around his neck that Dad heard that soft voice he had followed without question for so many years. He may have asked why he had been chosen this day so many miles out across the great glaciers and mighty rivers of Alaska, but stared in awe as a great door in the fog was revealed. I'm sure he took in a long, loving look at that green and magical country across which he so loved to travel, and rested his head and his heart upon his soulmate's shoulder where it remains today. He had never questioned, never faltered, and could never regret his beautiful drive along that winding road of life. With his adventurer's spirit anticipating the greatest journey of man, he turned the knob and pushed forward, and God quietly and peacefully shut the door behind him."