“And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we do when our own lives continue to unfold, but the lives that gave us life and others that gave our lives meaning have ended.” DeathFamilyAcceptance Book:The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning Source: The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
“To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond to the earth and to the others whose dead lie buried there. I always had that bond whether I knew it or not.” DeathFamilyRootsFamily HistoryBonds Book:The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning Source: The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning