I am digging up things in a small yard which I think is mine. The previous owner buried a small bed and one other thing that I don’t remember. What is the most memorable is a small chair made out of cement. It is about 4 feet high. It has arms and legs. The back of the chair is shaped and looks like a very old grave marker. It has black mold on parts of it and there is writing like one sees on a grave marker. However, the writing is too faint to see. It looks like a grave marker from the early 1900’s. When I dig up the bed and the other item, I take my shovel and smash them to pieces. I try to do the same with the chair, but get not where!
Paul and I years ago at the family cabin, dug up an old log pile whose wood was old and falling apart. We unearthed a small metal bed at the time! In waking life, I went to the cabin the following day in waking life.
Do you think it is odd to destroy an ancestral item like a (probable) child’s bed? Is the cemetery-style chair a memory of a baby or small child? An older aspect of you or your life? Or our inevitable end of life? What does 1900 mean? Turn of the century (transition). My grandmother was born in 1900.
I LOVE this one.
My Mom told me it is only about $300 to buy a cemetery lot at the Minneiska cemetery where my ancestors are buried. ! am thinking about that.
Thanks for your comments. Yes, maybe some memories can be let go of, but not the grave marker. Maybe this refers to the little boy Paul and I lost between Kelsi and Kevin. I like the idea of 1900 being a transitional time. Also, 1 plus 9 = 10=1 -a new beginning.