Thursday, November 23, 2006

Christmas Comes Earlier Every Year

Driving past the Sunset Funeral Home yesterday I saw at least 40 Christmas wreaths by headstones. Really people, respect for the dead is great, but it's not even December yet. Couldn't you at least do a wooden wreath? Something with berries and leaves perhaps?

It actually warms my heart a bit to see all the Christmas wreaths at the cemetery around Christmas time. The mix of morbid and sad with holiday cheer hits me as just right somehow. But then February and March hit and all of the brown rotting wreaths dotting the cemetery turn into depressing icons of ignored rotting corpses that only get a visit once a year.

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