Mom and Granddad took Leonard and me to Cloverdale to see where my brothers and sister grew up as kids. Of course, we had to stop at the cemetery to visit Wyatt.
This was such a peaceful place. I really felt like I was visiting sacred ground.
Wyatt's temporary grave marker.
(He now has a gorgeous headstone that I look forward to seeing when I visit him again.)
I also got to visit with Grannybelle.
Grannybelle's mom and Granddad's mom and step-dad are also buried here.
This poem at Wyatt's grave is so true. Even though I know he is in a better place and I now we will see him again someday, I selfishly want him here now. I miss him, and I wish he could be here with all of us, but especially Mom and his 3 sons.
"If tears could build a stairway,
and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven
and bring you home again."
On our way back to Greencastle we got some amazing ice cream, then we visited this apartment building that used to be a hospital. This is the place where my dad was born. His family lived in Spencer, but the nearest hospital was in Greencastle. When I was born, my parents also lived in Spencer, but the nearest hospital then was in Bloomington. Since we never lived in these towns, as a kid I'd remember my dad was born in Greencastle, because he has green eyes and that I was born in Bloomington because I have blue eyes. Now that my dad has retired he finally lives in the town he was born in. Maybe when we retire we'll live in Bloomington!
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