My Friend at the Cemetery…This Week’s Observations
I learned two things about my friend at the cemetery this week.( http://marcyblesy.com/2012/03/12/while-life-goes-whizzing-by-for-one-man-it-stands-still/ ) 1. He is not deterred by bad weather....
View ArticleMy Friend at the Cemetery and Baseball… Will He Make it to Home Plate?
There is something special about spring in the Midwest. The birds are chirping at sunrise, the walkers are out early, the afternoon air warms from the early morning chill, the squeals of children on...
View ArticleMy Friend at the Cemetery Has a New Car
He has a new car! My friend at the cemetery…has a new car. When the cemetery comes into view as I return home from work, the first thing I always see is a dull dark pick-up truck, the symbol of a...
View ArticleIt is Well With My Soul: Thoughts Upon the Man at the Cemetery
I was recently thinking of “my friend” at the cemetery. I have still seen him regularly, though there have been days he has missed, or perhaps, just altered his time. For some reason I think of this...
View ArticleThe Man at the Cemetery: An Update
It’s been three days in a row now with temperatures reaching 100 degrees in the Midwest. Yet he still goes…. I work in the schools, so I have my summers off. I no longer travel by the cemetery...
View ArticleThe Man at the Cemetery…Continued
As many of you know I work in the school system, so during the summers my schedule is not determined by a clock. (I know I am very lucky.) So, I did not pass by the cemetery at the edge of town every...
View ArticleThe Man at the Cemetery…Fall Rain and Tears
It is a dreary, rainy day in the Midwest today. The picture above, taken near my home, shows the changing leaves, cloudy sky, and wet pavement. I hate the fall. I truly do. I dread it every year....
View Article“It’s the little things in life, you know?”…The Man at the Cemetery Gets a Gift
from Painted Sky Designs “Can you keep a secret?” That’s the message that awaited me in my facebook inbox last week. With the permission of this superperson, I write today’s blog. In my last blog...
View ArticleThe Man at the Cemetery
He’s still there… The last time I blogged about the man at the cemetery, it was the one year anniversary of the death of his wife. Then I went on Christmas vacation, so my 4:00 trips past the...
View ArticleThe Man at the Cemetery
Many of you know that over the last couple of years I have blogged off and on about my observations of a man that grieves daily at the grave of his wife. The headstone resides near the front of a...
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