[lee martell]

In the first scenario about the ashes, I was certain you were going to lift the porcelain cap of that vase, look down and see a gun, a severed, now fossilized hand, or a pair of dilated blue eyes staring back up at you from inside the urn.

In the second scenario, I hope your wife was patient with the unexpected disruption of cherry-red venous blood mysteriously spotting your pants leg. Maybe she didn’t know until the ceremony was over.

**Both scenes remind me of the theory of “Awake Dreaming” I read about long ago from the ‘Carlos Casteneda’ books.

[rlmorel]

Glad you liked it-I use Free Republic as a vehicle to write personal anecdotes about my life that I suspect I am beginning to forget as I grow older! I have saved them all in a folder on my computer.

LOL, that hard drive will likely simply be reformatted when I am gone to store images of someone's cats...heck, mine are on there somewhere!