Ingrid Bergman, Isabella Rosellini, and Elettra

Elettra the face of Lancome (make-up) guest on David Letterman tonite ... very lovely, but what a surprising and appealing conversation.

Letterman said that he knew Elettra's mother very well; and never knew her grandmother, but saw both mother and grandmother in Elettra's visage.

The mother turns out to be none of than the lovely Isabella Rosellini http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000618/. And the grandmother is Ingrid Bergman http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000006/

And here we have a young, lovely Elettra (b. 1983), http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000618/bio

Letterman said that he's seen Casablance 100 times and that every time Ingrid Bergman appeared on the scseen, she captured the screen, adn captivated him personally.

All I can say is: Amen, Amen.

Casablanca ... how we both loved this wonderful movie, Momma.

My very favorite movie of all time.

How time flies

Oh my ... oh my

The Arthur Cemetery

My 3rd trip to Hornersville ... and the Arthur Cemetery ... the Hutchens Cemetery ... was this past weekend.

I thought about a vocation to be a Sexton, Momma ... and it feels very, very right ...

Oh Momma ...

I heard a froggy in the rain-soaked back yard tonite ... how many froggies are in Hornersville I wonder ... I went down Main St looking for the Joe Hole and couldn't find it ... but saw the Ditch ... and thought Oh Momma ...

everything makes me think Oh Momma ...

Oh Momma

Oh Jesus

Oh God

Oh God

Oh Momma

The Sexton

Hey, if Peace is in the Grave ....

Then maybe it's not so bad to find my vocation to be that of Sexton ...

My goal is still to respond to Mom's loss with as much integrity and authenticity and honor as I can muster ...

Being her Sexton ... and Sexton of her Grave ... and Sexton of the Arthur Cemetery ... could be such a Vocation I suppose ...

Oh God ...

Oh God ....

I love you Jesus my Only Hope ...

And if it be Your Will grant me this Vocation ....

Sexton to Momma ... Sexton to the Arthur Cemetery ...

Why not

Why not indeed

In my short time left I could be given much less O Lord

Thy will be done

Probate is Almost Over

In 2 days is the Final Hearing ... whew ... I think ... I think partly all my turmoil over the past week or so is exactly a paradoxical sense of anticipated *loss* ... in looking to the end of Probate.

When Probate ends after all it's one more sign that you are gone ... oh the whole grisly painful affair of closing out the worldly affairs of any human seems to me so very, very painful ...

O God I miss Momma so ...

The Frog at the Side of the House

I saw a frog, Momma, at the side of the house .... it was fairly good size .... a croaker rather than a peeper ...

And how we would have talked and laughed about it ....

Oh Momma ...

I miss you so

Peace is in the Grave

"Peace is in the Grave, the Grave holds all things beautiful and good ... "

In so many ways Shelley is so right ...

It was a wonderful morning with you before work, Momma. A beautiful morning, a beautiful dawn, and I saw the sunrise above your grave with deep emotion ...

How I would like to see another sunrise along with you Momma ...

Oh my ...

Oh Momma

How I miss you ....

I miss you so much ....

Sunday Night

I can hear the peepers (!) in the back yard ...

And I watched As Time Goes By ... what a wonderful, wonderful, delightful show ...

And I feel both grateful ... and deeply, deeply bereft ... oh Momma ... that you are not here for these things ...

I miss you so much.

I love you Momma.

I love you Jesus.

O Jesus.

Please please please please ... take good care of my good Momma ...

I love you

Charles Delacroix
9th Sunday in Ordinary Time