by Lightning McQueen » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:06 pm
Went to a strange funeral yesterday, it truly was more of a celebration of a life rather than a mourning.
The deceased had pre-planned everything, even to the point that on Friday morning when she awoke she said to her daughter "Can you ring Ange and order the rainbow flowers, they're taking me away today" and sure enough she waited until 11:35pm then passed away.
She insisted that no one wore black at her funeral, she bought her husband, 2 sons and 4 grandsons matching tie-dye shirts to wear for the ceremony, allocated a certain person to deliver the eulogies who was quite surprised and had a message for everyone sealed in an envelope to be read last.
The song that played as we placed petals on the casket was "Happy" by Pharrell Williams.
It was a different day, but one that made you appreciate life in itself, they way that you are born and then one day you're not around anymore, what you do in between is totally up to you, how you can respect whatever you have or be upset at what you don't have.
I walked away with a real glow inside of me, a day of total respect for someone who didn't want the day to be about her at all, although it was.
HOGG SHIELD DIVISION V WINNER 2018.
