A lovely day yesterday of driving slowly along the coastline looking at inlets and beachfront communities and eventually finding open water. At the end of the day we had covered just a little more than 60 miles, but it was the pleasant sort of leisurely driving that is more about looking to see what's there than it is about distance. There were lots of people, but mostly they were trying to enjoy their last few hours of weekend and were tolerant of my Arkansas license plate.
And of course there was talking. Lots of talking. Trying to make sense of family relationships in a family where few of us followed "normal" patterns. Just keeping track of the marriages was complicated, without trying to sort out the other relationships, some of which resulted in children. At one point Kassie just said "I'm confused," so we did our best to draw her a family tree. I'm just glad I didn't have to do a formal genogram and get in front of a group and talk about it.
We scouted out possible sites for a scattering ceremony. We have several possibilities, and I will leave it to Andrea and Kassie to sort that out. It is their mother/grandmother who will be laid to rest after all. We found a couple of cemeteries that overlook water, and it seems that one of those will be the choice. We'll work on that more today or tomorrow.
Today we are going to take the ferry out to Block Island and enjoy the sea. I hope there will be lobster.
I had lost the address of this spot. Good thing your address is written on my heart.
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