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Brutal

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RDP Tuesday:  Punctilious! 

 

When we create memorials to mark the resting place of those who have gone on before us, those memorials  in the first part of their life look beautiful to the eye.

Those memorials are cared for, and decorated with flowers or toys they not only  will say when that person was born and left this Earth they are also saying, ‘ this person was loved and is still loved ‘.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Evergreen Washelli- Seattle, Washington USA

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Saint Louis Cemetery Number One

Some people think Death is the bad guy in the grand scheme of things- but we know that the real villain is time.

Time will eat and wear away, word by word, atom by atom those memorials that were crafted to defy time ( HA! ).

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Saint Louis Cemetery Number One

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery/Turner Cemetery
Washington state.

We create memorials to those we loved that have gone on before us- but in the end time has the last word and it’s vocabulary is brutal.

ID Please

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RDP Monday: Nocturnal

Nocturnal Landscape
Undated
George Winter

Once upon a time, just after the first day of school elementary school kids used to bring home order forms for little metal ID bracelets.

The bracelets listed your name and address and phone number and even your religion. They were simple, basic. They were dog tags for your arm.

The kids who wore those bracelets were years and years away from having ID cards or driver’s licenses so those little bracelets were kind of cool, they made you official. They told people who we were and where we belonged.

Some of the bracelets put supplemental information on the side that rubbed against your wrist- I don’t remember what went on the flipside . I think there was a space on the back to list allergies and medical conditions- but I didn’t have those issues so I’m not sure where that info went. It would have been stupid to put them on the side of the bracelet that would get worn away in a couple of months, but this was the late 60’s and early 70’s so it’s possible.

However, I think if my Mom had been a good sport ( she’s not exactly known for her cutting edge sense of humor ) she would have handed off my ID Bracelet form to my Grandpa Bert ( who did have a sense of humor ) and I could have gotten him to have something engraved like:

:: Allergic to Silver and Garlic::

Yeah. It almost makes me wish my kids had worn those bracelets because I am pretty much my Grandpa Bert’s granddaughter and I could have had fun with that.

 

Buzz Off

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RDP Friday: WING

AI Artwork by Cursejourney

I really despise the term, ” wing it “

I used to hear that a lot from the people in my life when they were to busy or just not interested in explaining how things were done- my life was full of people who had better things to do then to explain things to me that  ” anybody could figure out”

That’s what they told me- ” just wing it Anita, that’s what everybody else does “

The truth of course is that is NOT what everybody else does.

So now when I hear someone say that they just ‘winged it’ my first feeling is,

” That really sucks my friend, that truly and really does suck.”

I Was There

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RDP Tuesday: Pets
I’ve run across several articles where Veterinarians are asking people to please be there with your pet if you have made the heartbreaking decision to, ” let them go”.
Animals know when their time has come- frankly I think that they can see what we can’t, so I believe that 100%- but in the articles it said that these pets are looking for their families before they leave.
I was there for my Cerberus- she fell  seriously ill and it was very unexpected. So I made the choice to let her go.

Cerbie

I told her she was going to sleep and that when she woke up she would be with her brother Wolfgang . I promised her that she was going to be able to run and play and that I would come find her and her brother.

Then I told her I loved her.

Wolfgang
Photo A.M. Moscoso

The last words Cerbie heard on this Earth was her Mommy telling her she loved her.

My voice. She took that with her into the next world.

I know if you are ever faced with this choice and you’re not sure you can do this- you can. Just remember your pet, that piece of your heart, the last thing they heard on this Earth was you saying you loved them.

You won’t regret that moment. Ever.

With my Cerbie – We didn’t say good-bye. I told her I love her. Those were the last words she heard- September 17, 2012 Lynnwood, WA