[ExI] outing myself

[John Grigg]

I knew a couple who kept a young child's bedroom just as it had been when
the four year-old girl died. I must admit that I viewed it as being a
psychologically very unhealthy thing to do. And I felt it did not set a
good example for the other children. The daughter had been dead for about
five years. I knew another couple who lost a young child, and as a family
they made an annual pilgrimage to her grave, on her birthday. I thought
that was the way to deal with such deep loss.

As for the rock that Spike's grandfather picked up and made a vow with,
that is a teaching aid for future generations, of how people should move on
and progress in their lives. It should become a treasured family heirloom!
I hope Spike's son passes it on to any children he may have...

John

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:16 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:03 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 21:45, spike jones via extropy-chat
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> >> OK perhaps it is an America thing.
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> > Oh no!   UK and EU collectors also pay small fortunes for ordinary
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> > objects that have a famous name attached to them. I just don't see the
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> > point myself.
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> BillK, my grandfather was a coal miner.  When the war started, Uncle Sam
> wanted him, but he was too old to be a soldier (39) so they sent him to
> Trinidad to build airstrips.
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> When he returned in 1945, he went back to his mining job, but soon decided
> he wasn’t going to do that kind of work anymore.  On his way out of the
> mine that day, he picked up a piece of slate.
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> Years went by.  When I was about 7 or 8, I could tell that wasn’t from
> Florida: we didn’t have that kind of rock anywhere around there.  I asked
> what that was for.  He explained that this was the last rock he would ever
> haul out of the ground.
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> He passed away a few years later (black lung) and my grandmother passed on
> about 20 yrs after that.  The Last Rock ended up with my mother, who didn’t
> know what it was.  Somehow it moved with them to Oregon, but didn’t make
> the move back from Oregon to Florida.
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> Monday and Tuesday I was up at the Oregon property and recognized it.  Now
> the Last Rock is in my back yard.
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> I have an appointment Friday at 11 with a local engraver to carve the
> words THE LAST ROCK into this thing:
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> Is it silly?  Ja.  It is just a rock.  But my grandfather picked up with a
> vow 75 years ago.
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> spike
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