Thank you for so many words to ponder.

I love wandering cemeteries and reading gravestones; moving leaves aside and finding out the little bits of someone's story left behind. It might sound morbid but I'm usually quietly respecting and sending peace to those who have gone before. I've also seen graves of families who lost several children close together, especially during the time of the Spanish flu in 1918 or other epidemics that took large numbers of families. Times were indeed so much harder then.