Saw the Cheney/Wallace interview....really good!
ALABASTER BOXES
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your
love and tenderness sealed up, until your
friends are dead. Fill their lives with
sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words
while their ears can hear them and while
by them. The kind things you mean to say
when they are gone, say them before they
go. The flowers you mean to send-use to
brighten and sweeten their homes before they
leave them. If my friends have alabaster
boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of
sympathy and affection I would rather they
would bring them out in my weary and
troubled hours and open them. Let us learn
to anoint our friends beforehand. Post-
mortem kindnesses do not cheer the
burdened spirit. Flowers cast no fragrance
backward over the weary way.
Author Unknown