i went to a funeral this morning in St. Louis, Missouri, USA via this computer screen. Sat. Drinking tea. Watching. Listening. My beingness drawn to the face of the mother.
i went then to my Monday work and did that, came home, fed Goats, fed dogs. Gave water.
all along i thought that no matter anything else, What kind of people would let the body of an eighteen year old child lie in the middle of a street for over 4 hours?. Would not let the mother of that eighteen year old child come to him, hold him in the first hours of his death.
if nothing else, i want an answer, a Real answer to this. How do "they" legitimize this? In all cultures, all societies spanning the globe, death is honored in certain ways. Only in War do bodies lie in the heat of the sun. Only in war.
