What is the name for a thing that should be but is not? Today is Jo's 24th birthday, but she will never be 24. It's a birthday with no-one to wear it, like a marker for the unknown soldier.
You know, I'm surprised that no-one gets upset about people scattering ashes in the environment. Ever since we scattered Jo's ashes at Otaki beach I've been very conscious of the thought of other people doing the same at whatever beach I'm at - why doesn't it make the whole area tapu or something? I mean, we've diverted roads for taniwha.
It has certainly changed my feelings for the beach, and I'm hardly a spiritual type.
Posted by phreq at April 3, 2007 11:37 AM | TrackBack*Hugs.*
I'm not sure whether it would be tapu. I figure we're breathing in the atoms of dead people all the time. Part of the cycle of life and all that.
Posted by: Fionnaigh at April 4, 2007 01:06 AM