Love and loss on Labor Day, 2017

Emotional support:

Today I tidied the gravesites of Jacob Vaness Young, his wife Leita and their two children, swapping out summer flowers for fall stuff. I took Clementine with me for the first time since late spring, when a cranky cop told me “No pets allowed in the cemetery” In other words, vacate and don’t come back (this, after several other policemen over the years have chatted amicably with me there, never once mentioning pet weren’t allowed).

After that incident with the pesky police...