Funeral Home

We went to visitation at the funeral home last night for one of our neighbors. Out on our road, lots of folks have lived at the same place for lots of years and a good number of them are related. That means folks know each other and care about each other. We saw it in action when our house flooded and they came out in force to help us. My point is that a funeral home viewing means a good number of folks from our neighborhood will be there. I chatted with our neighbor Marsha about what was going on with our families and all the rain we’ve been getting. As we finished our conversation, I told her it was good to talk to her instead of just waving as we pass. We agreed that life keeps us too busy to think about stopping to catch up with a neighbor. We’re always running to the bank before it closes or some other thing that seems important. That’s a real shame because life is too short to just be busy and neighbors are too important to drive by and just wave.