DAD
so a few days ago, february 2 was my dads birthday. this would be the first birthday after his death last summer, we had decided that we would spread his ashes on this day and we would spread them at our old elementary school that he had voluteered for about 20 years.
it was a hard day, as anyone could imagine, i arrived to my moms early, so i could help her pack, she has 2 weeks until the sale of the house in which i was born and raised, is closing and her new house will be available.
going through all the stuff in the basement brought out a lot of suppressed emotions. seeing all the old pictures, a lot of awards that my dad won from volunteering at the school, and boxes of my grandmother's(nanny) house.
4 o clock came around and it was time to go spread the ashes. i wanted to have a little bit of daylite.
my sister was around, we all were now going, sis, bro, mom, and me. my sister is an alcoholic, so of course she was trashed, my mom and her do not get along.
we get there after a lil arguement between my mom and her. it spills out onto the street as we are aproaching the tree where we will let my dad rest.
my sister ends up stumbling off pissed at my mom, then my mom leaves, just me and my brother stand there.
the day has almost been ruined, but i will not let that get to me and ruin what i had planned to do for my dad, this is where he'd like to rest, so i will do it.
this is for him, not us.
spreading his ashes was probably the hardest thing i've had to do.
this was my dad in this urn as ashes.
i spread half and then my brother spread the other half in a circle around the young tree on the side of jefferson elementary school.
some of my dads ashes are at tahoma national cemetary in covington. he was in vietnam, so he has a grave in the columns of the national cemetary.
we left a trace amount of his ashes in the urn, so we will keep it for his car, a "1969 mustang mach 1 cobra jet 428". my brother says he wants to clean it up and go to car shows with it in memory of our dad.
i also got a tattoo of an anatomical black heart with one red blood drop, within the ink of the blood drop, i sprinkled some of his ashes.
i will post a picture soon.
good bye dad, i love you.
it was a hard day, as anyone could imagine, i arrived to my moms early, so i could help her pack, she has 2 weeks until the sale of the house in which i was born and raised, is closing and her new house will be available.
going through all the stuff in the basement brought out a lot of suppressed emotions. seeing all the old pictures, a lot of awards that my dad won from volunteering at the school, and boxes of my grandmother's(nanny) house.
4 o clock came around and it was time to go spread the ashes. i wanted to have a little bit of daylite.
my sister was around, we all were now going, sis, bro, mom, and me. my sister is an alcoholic, so of course she was trashed, my mom and her do not get along.
we get there after a lil arguement between my mom and her. it spills out onto the street as we are aproaching the tree where we will let my dad rest.
my sister ends up stumbling off pissed at my mom, then my mom leaves, just me and my brother stand there.
the day has almost been ruined, but i will not let that get to me and ruin what i had planned to do for my dad, this is where he'd like to rest, so i will do it.
this is for him, not us.
spreading his ashes was probably the hardest thing i've had to do.
this was my dad in this urn as ashes.
i spread half and then my brother spread the other half in a circle around the young tree on the side of jefferson elementary school.
some of my dads ashes are at tahoma national cemetary in covington. he was in vietnam, so he has a grave in the columns of the national cemetary.
we left a trace amount of his ashes in the urn, so we will keep it for his car, a "1969 mustang mach 1 cobra jet 428". my brother says he wants to clean it up and go to car shows with it in memory of our dad.
i also got a tattoo of an anatomical black heart with one red blood drop, within the ink of the blood drop, i sprinkled some of his ashes.
i will post a picture soon.
good bye dad, i love you.