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Will there be cat puke in heaven?

How do you feel about the Afterlife?
Do you believe in heaven? Hell? The great Catholic test of Purgatory?

I’m pretty sure this is all there is. In addition I think this is enough.
My friend who just died, the ‘social butterfly’ I mentioned a few entries ago, had lost two sons, a third of her six children, one to motorcycle accident, the other to a car accident. Both happened within a few years of each other.
My friend was a woman who made connections. She had an important job and she was good at it. It required and allowed contact with dozens of the workers at the factory. She was a gossip, but a selective and generally well meaning gossip. She once said it wasn’t gossip if it was true. I didn’t try to enlighten her. I didn’t want to lose her as a contact.
After the death of her second son, she stopped going to church. She had been a strong, generational Catholic, but after God took too of her children, she did not want to have anything more to do with him… God, that is.
At one point she was getting letters from someone at her church, urging her to come back. The letters made her angry.
I told her what to do. I said to write back and thank the person writing the letter for their concern, saying she knew the person had her best interest at heart, but saying she had made her own decision about going to church and she didn’t either need or want advice about it.
I think I wrote out a sample few sentences. I’m pretty sure that’s what she did.
Another thing I said about her sons and their deaths. I said that perhaps each of them had had golden moments, hours, days, TIME so great and so satisfying that their lives had had value enough. Brief happiness is a great thingIt’s.... and it avoids the pain that comes later in life. I’m not sure if I said the part about avoiding pain, but I do think the idea that we need to appreciate what we are given appealed to her.
Another time I gave her a bit of Shakespeare:
“Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then have I reason to be fond of grief.”
It’s from King John, Act 4
She liked it. She said Shakespeare must have lost a child to know who it feels.

Joe Biden was a man who knew loss. He would attempt comfort and empathy by telling those who had had losses that there would come a time when memory of the lost person would bring happiness as well as sorrow.
“There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.”

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I found a list of Roger Ebert’s 15 favorite movies on YouTube this morning:
1. Aguerre, the Wrath of God
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Citizen Kane
4. La Dolce Vita
5. The General
6. Raging Bull
7. 2001, A Space Odyessey
8. Tokyo Story
9. The Tree of Life
10. Vertigo
11. Casablanca
12. Floating Weeds
13. Gates of Heaven
14. Notorious
15. The Third Man

The narrator pronounces Ebert as A-bert (or Eh-bert, some of the time). It’s supposed to be E-bert.