The thin veil

I was reading a post about the passing of Coco Robicheaux on a friend’s blog and was thinking to this week where Wednesday marks the second anniversary of my mom’s passing. Today as if written, Deacon John’s smooth voice was belting out Any Day Now, the same song he played graveside for her one year memorial. It’s time to refresh her flowers in her vase, and to visit just for a spell, and mostly to remind Tin that Mimi existed someplace other than our memories at one time.

I read with interest an article in the NYT about Black Atheists and wondered how it is that after all these years of partnering with atheists and moving further away from Judaism that I feel more spiritually intact than I ever have before – this isn’t a discussion about whether there is an afterlife or whether there is a divine purpose – this is an acknowledgment that we are mere mortals and there is a spiritland that exists inside and beside all of us.

God bless you Coco – and mom – we miss you here on earth.

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