I Do

"Death is just another path, one that we all must take." — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

From: Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell

And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time...

One year today.  I miss you John.

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.

All is well.

Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!                            

Henry Scott Holland

Post Order

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The Gate of the Year.

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:

 

Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.

 

And he replied:

 

Go out into the darkness and put thine hand into the hand of God.

 

That shall be to thee better than a light and safer than a known way.

M.L. Haskins (1908)

A Loving Heart

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
 

Thomas Carlyle


These are people in our lives who have loved each other.
 

 Lowell Paul McLaughlin and Mary Carolina Cafarella Mitchell McLaughlin, on my graduation day in 1971

 

 Mary Rose Mitchell Burrill and Frederick Wendell Burrill 1959

 

 Mary Carolina Cafarella Mitchell and Richard Bruce Mitchell 1937

 

Maurice Doubleday and Carol Mitchell Doubleday

 Mary Rose Mitchell and Richard Bruce Mitchell I and II 1944?

 

Anerio Cincotta and Jennie Cincotta

Philip Anerio Cincotta and  Jennie Cafarella Cincotta 

Rose Cafarella Cincotta and Jake Cincotta

Anerio Cincotta and Margaret Egan Cincotta

Mary Augusta Robb Cafarella and Joseph Gaetano Cafarella

Mary Rose Cincotta Cafarella and Joseph Gaetano Cafarella 1905

Nancy Cafarella and Miranda Ariel Bailey

Richard DeFina and Doreen Marie Slattery DeFina

Mary Rose Mitchell, Mary Rose Cincotta Cafarella and Richard Bruce Mitchell II

John Joseph Thornton, Harry Tuscan Thornton and William Philip Mitchell 2013

William Philip Mitchell, Sarah Thornton Kelley and John Joseph Thornton 2013

 

Terry Bittker and John Joseph Thornton 2005

Florence Montalto Cincotta and Anerio Cincotta

 

John Joseph Thornton, Sandra Garifoli Huchinson and William Philip Mitchell 2013

Cathy Gregrow, William Philip Mitchell, John Joseph Thornton, Judy Wimer 2013

 

John Joseph Thornton and Roland Huges  2005

John Joseph Thornton and Samir Bhattacharyya 2012

Vincent Strom and John Joseph Thornton about 2007

William Philip Mitchell and John Joseph Thornton about 2007

Elaine Guthrie and John Joseph Thornton