{"id":1788,"date":"2007-02-09T00:38:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T05:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2007-02-09T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:23:14","slug":"we-buried-our-father-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/02\/09\/we-buried-our-father-today\/","title":{"rendered":"We Buried Our Father Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m tired and I’m not sure how best to tell the rest of this story, so I’ll do what I always do when something feels too big. I’ll chop it into small pieces.<\/p>\n

I’m happy Diane and Peter were part of this, and I wish Brian had been too. It still feels right that we brought Mack back to his roots, to the hardscrabble area in which he grew up. And it felt right that the only other people present were the grave digger and the man hired to provide the concrete box and lower Mack into the ground. <\/p>\n

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Leaving the Best Western in El Dorado.<\/p>\n

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Arriving for our meeting with Lionell at Carlson’s in Eldorado. <\/p>\n

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Lionell and Mack’s temporary grave marker.<\/p>\n

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Near Latham, Kansas.<\/p>\n

Next: What happens when the grave is too small.<\/p>\n

To those whose email’s are bouncing back please use michael at vanishingreality.com (at used here instead of @ to thwart the spam bots)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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