tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post668321435953266448..comments2024-03-22T00:21:30.759-07:00Comments on Louise Penny: I'm pretty sure that's my ash...Louise Penny Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-76547521616164698542009-03-01T15:43:00.000-08:002009-03-01T15:43:00.000-08:00Dear Hilary,I didn't know whether to laugh or cry ...Dear Hilary,<BR/><BR/>I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at your descritipn of the car filled with loved ones, reduced. While we managed to spread Mom, we still have Bonnie and Seamus's ashes at home. For some reason we can't stand to thjink of them in the wet and cold...but sitting in a small box seems to be ok. <BR/><BR/>Here's hoping for continued good luck at customs...though I would enjoy hearing about that conversation.Louise Penny Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-30168778426176006942009-03-01T15:41:00.000-08:002009-03-01T15:41:00.000-08:00Dear Bobbie,Thank you for your good wishes. We kn...Dear Bobbie,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your good wishes. We know it will be go beautifully. And a relief to hear others have the same conversations about death, and death-order. And we're 12 hours into the fast and I'm have waking fantasies...pizza. milk shakes. Good god, even turnip. nEVER MIND.Louise Penny Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-62329187342750765572009-03-01T15:38:00.000-08:002009-03-01T15:38:00.000-08:00Dear Anon,Oh, how sad for you...I can just feel yo...Dear Anon,<BR/><BR/>Oh, how sad for you...I can just feel your pain. What a wonderful daughter you are. And yes, it is everything, even if we know they're together in a place removed from ashes. But that's why we spread mm on the island..to be close. I think I understand. And aren't we lucky to have so many beautiful little country cemetaries.Louise Penny Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-81662018179566935682009-03-01T15:36:00.000-08:002009-03-01T15:36:00.000-08:00Lee Ann,Glad to hear the scans only found a broken...Lee Ann,<BR/><BR/>Glad to hear the scans only found a broken ankle...a relief. Thanks for writing and the good thoughts.Louise Penny Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-40859502659761290792009-03-01T09:00:00.000-08:002009-03-01T09:00:00.000-08:00I travel to my cottage to spend the summer every y...I travel to my cottage to spend the summer every year with a third of my father's ashes in a lovely wooden box. I am -- according to his wishes -- supposed to spread them on his parents' grave in Scotland -- but haven't got there yet. But I just can't leave him behind -- although one year, I nearly did go without him. I was driving up my lane, and a pendant he used to wear that I keep linked around my rear view mirror began swinging back and forth quite vigourously. It reminded me, and I went back and got him. This time, on going up the lane, the pendant didn't swing at all.<BR/>Now, my two companion cats have died, and -- yes -- their ashes go back and forth too. I have, fortunately, never been searched, or questioned, at customs.Hilary MacLeodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05629125776311841963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-91064282229460718522009-03-01T08:10:00.000-08:002009-03-01T08:10:00.000-08:00Dear Louise,We attended a friend's mother's graves...Dear Louise,<BR/>We attended a friend's mother's graveside services last week (was all they had funeral-wise, then had a meal and memory-fest at her church, recalling happy times). And Larry and I had some of the same thoughts you and Michael have. Yes, funeral home visits can be awful for everyone. We both want cremation. And yes, how we wish we could choose some things...like who goes first...wouldn't be our wish to go, but we'd both want to be first so would not have to live without the other one, so who wins this wish? :-) No good answer to that one.<BR/><BR/>But life certainly owes Larry and me nothing at all. We've been so lucky in many ways, had some hard times too, but all lives have hard times, of course. And life makes no promises of being fair, ever--nor should it. It's to be lived, and we've had such great joy and luck.<BR/><BR/>Regarding your fasting, think of it as a prequel to eating while writing book 6, and being a great wife to Michael. :-) Regarding what you have to do, actually both of you, you have my ultimate best wishes.<BR/><BR/>I am re-reading Still Life, am leading it in April at my library's book group discussion-general readers, not a mystery group. Methinks they will be impressed. What a joy to read this again, how you started our Three Pines journey. After reading the others, it is so interesting to go back and re-read the first. I've found questions, general and specific, on your website, thanks for that! But more importantly, thank you for your writing, Louise. It's incredible. As are you.<BR/><BR/>BobbieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-44116540146243904372009-03-01T07:47:00.000-08:002009-03-01T07:47:00.000-08:00Strange thing ash! My Dad died 2 years ago and was...Strange thing ash! My Dad died 2 years ago and was followed by my Mum this past November. I have both of their ashes, which I brought to Sutton from England, in the corner of my bedroom whilst I decide what to do with them. Arguably it matters not at all as its just...ash but it feels like everything so I want to find a spot that wont change which might even mean the nice cemetery up the raod with the view of the Pinnacle that they both really liked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-4248527983831050092009-02-28T17:13:00.000-08:002009-02-28T17:13:00.000-08:00Those all sound like fun activities, particularly ...Those all sound like fun activities, particularly the fasting for the colonoscopy. Ahem. My mother's ashes were spread in Puget Sound and, as far as I know, no dead zones have emerged as a result--it's been 24 years so I expect we are safe. I'm sorry you are still hanging around the scanning equipment--I myself have spent the kind of winter that should have left me glowing in the dark but it all turned up exactly nothing (except the broken ankle). Best wishes to you and Michael for the coming week!<BR/><BR/>Lee AnnLee Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06752558472354121200noreply@blogger.com