Blog Written in a Modern Graveyard

"On some fond breast the parting soul relies, / Some pious drops the closing eye requires" are two very important lines from Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which describe how people, no matter who they are, want to be mourned when they die and they want to be remembered, somehow.  This reminds me of a ribbon I received at my great-grandma's funeral back in 2002 which says GRANDMOTHER on it, to always remind me of her.  And since then, every time I see it, I remember her and our family get-togethers and her wonderful Ukrainian cooking, and I remember all the good times we used to have, and I miss her!