Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for December 10, 2021

Don’t most of us?

Yes, except for the ones who are not.

Tia Carmen, did you just say it like that?

True, so true.

They were all Grateful Dead fans?

Thus the day of the dead.

“And someday, everybody who’s alive today will be dead, including us. Chew on that for a while. Now on this page…”

“I come from a long line my father handed my mother.”

goes all the way back to Adam and Eve

“We come from a long line of dead people.”

But they weren’t dead when they extended the line.

The only thing more common than being dead is being born, and eventually those two numbers will equalize.

“We come from a long line of dead people”. As does everyone

What a coincidence, so do I…..

I like that, “I come from a long line of dead people.”

Hard to believe 40 years ago was 1981.

don’t we all

“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, opening sentence of his Foreword to his classic science fiction novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Gracie’s next question: Zombies or Vampires?

I suspect Gracie would prefer Vampire. Zombies are just so unsanitary.

The kind of ancestors you have is not as important as the kind of descendants they have.

Don’t we all

Over Thanksgiving weekend, I visited with family in "the old home place’. I took some of the family history cousins to a couple of cemeteries to go over some family history because (ahem) I know where the bodies are buried.