dying

I have been gone for about two months and thought I would explain where I have been and what I have been doing.  Read More »

What I cherish in Bataille: his worldview. All, he says, is but part of a system of interplaying energetic forces. The system is such as to desire violent excess, chaos. All is desire to overflow, to explode, to release, to expend. Energetic frenzy is seemingly suspended- it's slowed up, congealed... Until the breaking point.  Read More »

Now if you die in the future you may find yourself dissolved in acid.
This is not just a futuristic possibility.
Mortuaries and states are considering this option.

This according to Fox News after you die you could be dissolved in acid and go right down the drain.

The article is here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354610,00.html.  Read More »

Changes come as leaves fall from the trees

Another way to "get through" to them

Said with a chuckle

Amongst coy responses

Told to say what we might take

In stride to look like cake

Like a bad plot in a movie

This talk cant be real

Are people really listening intently?

Look at their faces as these words

Jumble out of lips built for lies  Read More »

Some people still believe that marriage is sacred and should be a commitment shared between a man and a woman in love. However, the question still stands; is modern day marriage dead or dying?  Read More »

At the age of 5, right after our preschool graduation, my best friend Ricardo "Cardo" passed away of a brain tumor. I can't remember the first time I wrote a poem about him, but I must have been about 7 years old or so. I don't have the original copy, but I will never forget what I was thinking then.

She told me you were gone.
Our best friend,
She lied to me
and told me you were gone.  Read More »

Why is it that we rejoice at birth
and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not
the person involved.
--- Mark Twain

Joe DiMaggio the deceased baseball great is often remembered as the funeral flower guy.He put flowers on Marilyn Monroe's Grave every year he was alive after Marilyn's death. These funeral flowers cost Joe quite a sum over the years.  Read More »

The best way to get the information you need is to pick up a good book on Funerals.
This happened to me when I was in High School. I picked up the book "The Loved One" by Evelyn Waugh. 32 Years Later I became a Funeral Director and began helping others with their Family Funerals and Lower Funeral Costs. More information on Evelyn is here at progressive U:  Read More »