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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1243755" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Healing and some measure of peace will come over time. People will deal with loss their own way, and in their own time, and the interment service itself, is never enough. </p><p></p><p>My father was a workaholic. His funeral was in the late morning, I did the eulogy, and after the service, we met for a meal at his favorite eating establishment--they knew him well there, and made room for our large party---the owner came over, extended his condolences, and insisted on picking up the tab. Dad was well known there before he developed dementia--a celebration meal, a remembrance. </p><p>When I returned home around 2pm, I just changed clothes, hooked a bush hog on to his favorite tractor and went to work on the biggest and roughest part of a piece of property my sister now owns. Early June, it was already hot, dirty, leaves and crap falling. Got hung up between trees several times, had to drop it loose from the mower, then pull the mower out backwards with a chain. Sheared 2 drive line pins. Lost a lift arm pin. It was rough going, mostly in the blind from tall underbrush, big vines, I worked till dark and got it cleared, and cried every inch of the way. My wife didn't understand, but it's what he would have done, had the situation been reversed. </p><p></p><p>This will not be the last time you feel sorrow and grief Ron, but you will find a way each time, to make that grief bearable, and healing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1243755, member: 18945"] Healing and some measure of peace will come over time. People will deal with loss their own way, and in their own time, and the interment service itself, is never enough. My father was a workaholic. His funeral was in the late morning, I did the eulogy, and after the service, we met for a meal at his favorite eating establishment--they knew him well there, and made room for our large party---the owner came over, extended his condolences, and insisted on picking up the tab. Dad was well known there before he developed dementia--a celebration meal, a remembrance. When I returned home around 2pm, I just changed clothes, hooked a bush hog on to his favorite tractor and went to work on the biggest and roughest part of a piece of property my sister now owns. Early June, it was already hot, dirty, leaves and crap falling. Got hung up between trees several times, had to drop it loose from the mower, then pull the mower out backwards with a chain. Sheared 2 drive line pins. Lost a lift arm pin. It was rough going, mostly in the blind from tall underbrush, big vines, I worked till dark and got it cleared, and cried every inch of the way. My wife didn't understand, but it's what he would have done, had the situation been reversed. This will not be the last time you feel sorrow and grief Ron, but you will find a way each time, to make that grief bearable, and healing. [/QUOTE]
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