[Magdalen] We remember them

[Jon Egger]

My mother, born in 1931, had vague memories of a brother being born.  She
didn't know the year, but had a sure memory of the box (literally) having
DYNAMITE painted on it.  He was buried in the cemetery in Eveleth, MN, and
mom remembered the name Michael.  When I was 17 I took it upon myself to
find his grave. I placed one of those temporary tin markers on his grave,
with his name on it.

Grace and peace,
brud

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:42 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> She never obsessed about him, but she did mention her brother Mark from
> time to time.  He would have been about my age. Mark lived about a day, if
> memory serves.  It left a hole in my mother-in-law's heart, I have no
> doubt. Christine inquired of a cemetery and found that there was a plot
> where Mark rests, and she arranged to have a stone put on it, and a picture
> of it was sent to her, which she sent on to her Mom.
>
> I have forgotten just what year it was (probably about 1985), but it was
> Good Friday that we miscarried. It was the only time we ever were pregnant.
> That was essentially the last time we tried to conceive through IVF. It
> just wasn't working, probably because an enzyme attacked the ovum.
>
> Recently a choir director and friend asked me to join a pickup choir to
> sing at a commemoration service for still born infants sponsored by a local
> hospital. The read a list of names of the children who will never get a
> chance to grow up. It got me thinking. We never knew the gender of our
> child, of course, but some feeling in me just said, it was a girl.  I
> decided she was Cecilia.  Christine thought that was a fine name, patron of
> music and all.  Perhaps if she were here she too would be involved in
> music.
>
> They included a sheet of paper to write the names of loved ones, so the two
> first names I wrote on the memorial list this morning were Mark and
> Cecilia.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 8:14 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From many years past, fond remembrances.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQor_dX3IM
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 8:00 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> They shall not grow old....
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OaBgaMcOvM
> >>
> >> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> >> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not
> preserved,
> >> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >>
> >
> >
>