Just kidding ... today's memorial is actually for the other being in the picture -- my bio-dad, who passed away a year ago yesterday, with hospice workers by his side.
I don't want to be inauthentic ... my relationship with him over the years wasn't very close ... and I had said my goodbyes to him months before he died when I went to visit him in what was more of my case-worker role at the end of his life. I actually didn't make it back east for his funeral, but I do plan to visit his final resting spot in Ft. Indiantown Gap when I finally make it back "home" sometime this year, as my 25th high school reunion should be happening at some point in 2014.
I will say that with the anniversary of his death being just two days before the anniversary of my birth each year ... I've got a built-in reminder about how time marches on, and how there's a circle of life, and how any other cliche that's appropriate for this situation can be applied.
So Ralph "Deer-slayer" Neidermyer, Sr. ... one year from your passing ... in some form or fashion by many of your wives, kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, and other family and friends ... you are missed.
HOW TO TELL THE AGE BY THE ANTLERS:
http://dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Hunt_Trap/deer/antlers.asp
MY THANK YOU LIST UPON LEARNING OF HIS PASSING (from last year):
http://capcognition.blogspot.com/2013/01/random-soapbox-for-saturday-1513.html
MY VERSION OF A EULOGY (from last year):
http://capcognition.blogspot.com/2013/01/purposeful-memorial-for-monday-1713.html
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