Five months or 21 Weeks or 150 Days doesn't seem like a long period of time. They don't mean much of course without context. In that amount of time 4 important people in my life are gone. I'm not even sure what I feel.
Just a week ago I visited the columbarium that contains the cremated remains of my parents. It was the first time I'd been back since their internment at Fort Snelling National Cemetery just 9 weeks ago. In the winter it really seemed like a lonely place. I thought about my father-in-law and his final resting place at the Black Hills National Cemetery. He passed away in 2013. The uniformity of the National Cemeteries are majestic looking but I also like Calvary Cemetery close to my home where other family members and friends are buried. The variety of the markers at Calvary create more of a visual clue to the story of the person buried there.
I've thought about creating a QR code with a link to one of those services that allow you to access more about the person or family represented by their grave marker. I used to think about those services as "odd". My perception has changed and my curiosity is peaked. A cemetery would transform into an interactive learning experience to share teach and provide answers for the curious. I guess I'm becoming odd; but I don't think so! Reaching back into the playlists of my life I think its TIME for Pink Floyd and "Time".
