Things We Should do More Often

Tonight Alex went to the wake of a co-worker's wife... I've never heard of attending a wake for someone you don't know but was married to someone you know a bit because you work with... in the end I decided not to go.

However, Alex had a point. His mother passed on two years ago, and he said a large number of people from his work came, and he was glad to see them. So. If the husband is like my husband, then I probably should have gone, though it seems that hundreds of people turned out, so I probably wasn't noticably missing.

But. And it's an unsure but. I am a more private person... if Alex or my parents were heading up with the Angels, I don't know that I would want complete strangers coming to view their wordly bodies. I'd want peace and privacy. I think. It's really hard to think about.

So since I had come along to the town of the wake, and THEN decided I wasn't going, I got to spend a couple of hours with my F-I-N and B-I-N. I know we don't go nearly enough, and neither of us has anything against going, it's only that they live 40 minutes away, on route to nothing, so we don't ever just pass through. So it was good to be there!