Cemeteries are peaceful and calm oases chock full of local history and stories of people long gone.
One can also find a smile.
Found today at the Necropolis – one of the oldest cemeteries in Toronto.
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My Life Lived Full 
Some people are clever and witty even after then end. I think I should think about it for the future. What sort of wit could I like to leave behind.
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Mine might read something along the line of “I wasn’t witty in life, what did you expect now?”
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Now I’m thinking … although I don’t plan to be buried ….
Hmmmm …
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haha! You can’t help but start thinking about it 🙂
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Joanne, your find in Toronto in the Necropolis was fascinating. I stop all over the states I am in, looking at local cemeteries. I particularly enjoy older cemeteries. 🙂 I actually have had two cemeteries in my blogs, whichI return to. The newest one, I found some revolutionary war heroes buried there.
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Graves dating back to the revolution would be very old. What was the condition of the graves.
I don’t know whether it’s our weather, or the quality of particular stones, but I found many of the older ones have not fared well over the years. Some are now unreadable which is rather sad.
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There were several split stones but this is a vault and may have transferred a revolutionary soldier into this location, Joanne. I have this scheduled near end of the month. I try with busy work schedule to write ahead over weekends on my posts.
Many have those brass stars with the Revolutionary War, plus “DAR.” (You and I know are Daughters of American Revolution but in case someone doesn’t will help inform them.)
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Wow what great finds! Love the last one.
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Me too! I suspect this was someone very interesting in life 🙂
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[…] ← Having The Last Word […]
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Some nice last words! And true.. there is something about cemeteries… lives of once upon a time! So many stories buried underground…
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Every time I walk through a cemetery I wish I was a story teller. These lives that lived are just begging for a story to be told.
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What wonderful finds! I love finding stuff like this on headstones, and yes, they did make me smile. I may just have to go plant a tree now 🙂
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The world can always use more trees!! I planted some ornamental grasses today. Hope they count too 🙂
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I’m sure some bug will enjoy them 🙂
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Gah!
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These do make me smile…
There us an amazingly beautiful cemetry in the center of Buenos Aires, (with many intricate sculptures) and a beautiful one in Granada, Nicaragua.
Peta
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Cemeteries are full of treasures that most people never stop to appreciate. Thanks for commenting 🙂
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Now I want to put instructions in my will about my headstone. Maybe “Go eat chocolate”.
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or, ‘I needed chocolate and no one would listen’ 😉
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What a great way to have the last word!
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Isn’t it though? Now I want to think up something sassy for my last word 🙂
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They’re also great places to go birding! Who knew right? 🙂 Thanks for the smiles this morning!
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Oh the birds!! There was one particular grave that had dozens of little birds chirping about it. As we got closer I realized that there was a small bird feeder there beside the stone.
Yup! It was another smile 🙂
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These are great – not often you look at a strangers headstone and think ‘I’d like
to have known them’!
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That’s a great point. I thought the statements were a commentary on the personality of the individual. If that’s true – of course I would have liked to have known them 🙂
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Love this Joanne! Although I have instructed my loved ones to just toss my ashes to the wind, if one is going to have a headstone, I love the idea of leaving a sassy saying of some sort!
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hehehe – I’ve read so many funny stories about tossing ashes into the wind – you know, the kind that are only funny in hindsight – that it could very well be your last sassy request 😉
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Note to self, when releasing ashes, always stand with your back to the wind!!!
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🙂 They knew how to live, eh? Thank you for posting that.
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I suspect all 3 were little spitfires in life … as we should be 🙂
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How nice of them to leave us with a permanent reason to smile. I’ve been trying to share a bit of good news or happy news each day, for a friend. I’m going to use this post today 🙂
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Even better when the smiles are passed on 🙂
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These three folks are making us smile from beyond. 🙂 Great ideas. The best one I ever saw was “We always had Paris” and you can envision some extremely romantic trip.
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The much older parts of the cemetery are very somber and serious. This lighter side seems to be a more current phenomenon and it does make me smile 🙂
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Makes me want to see if I can find anything interesting on any of the local gravestones here… 🙂
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It’s a lovely place for a quiet, reflective walk ….
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If I thought URLs would endure, I’d have the link to my family tree put on a headstone for any genealogists who were interested. 🙂
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That’s a good point. I wonder how URLs will evolve over time, but it is a great idea. It could become the new version of hieroglyphics.
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I saw my first ‘smiley’ on a headstone recently. I wonder what people will make of that in 100 years time?
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Well, I hope it mitigates some of the negative impression that will be left of current news events.
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Hehe. I can imagine future generations trying to decipher URLs.
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It’s interesting that shortly after I read your comment, I was reading an article about exactly that.
This reporter had seen a gravestone with a URL on it. He looked it up and discovered that the deceased had been a blogger and the URL was a link to her blog …. which is still open and still gets traffic.
I guess it is possible to *live on* indefinitely.
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Hm. I guess it’s one way to manage one’s image after death.
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I love that Joanne! Go plant a tree. So interesting what one can find in a cemetery.
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We laughed out loud. I’m imagining this person was a bit sassy 🙂
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I definitely think so!
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They all had too short of a life, but it probably was a happy one. Love Farokh’s sense of humor if he was the one who told us to plant a tree.
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It certainly gives us an impression of the person they were 🙂
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As you know, I love cemeteries too. So beautiful and peaceful, and often so full of history. I know you had been wanting to go to this one for awhile, and I can see why. My favorite cemetery of all is the one we visited in Cuba. You would be in heaven there (no pun intended).
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I am now so curious to visit Cuba, if only to see this great cemetery.
This particular cemetery is a bit of a time capsule of the history of Toronto. In fact, we discovered that an actual time capsule had been created and buried here in 2000 for the 150th anniversary of the cemetery.
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I really love these. Brilliant. What a clever addition to a grave!
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It is finding the unexpected that makes this so much fun. It provides a very small glimpse into the person they might have been 🙂
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Is it door day, today? In a sense, I think gravestones are like doors.
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Door days are Thursday, but you’re right. They are symbolic doors, aren’t they 🙂
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Very cool, and what a clever title for your blog.
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Thank you. I was rather proud of that one 🙂
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I never thought about doing anything like that for my gravestone but it’s such a wonderful idea I’ll have to come up with something 👍👍
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I know!! I love the idea of something cheeky on my gravestone that makes people smile long after I’m gone.
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Such wonderful inscriptions- and we were channeling one another today for sure. A heart feels a heart I always say ❤
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What a lovely expression! – A heart feels a heart … I’ll remember that ❤
… at least you and I got the memo from the universe today 😉
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Whatever gets put on my gravestone.. It will have to beat them all! These are pretty good!
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Once upon a time I didn’t care, but now I’m starting to think I want something snappy on a stone. I like the idea of making some unknown person smile 🙂
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yeah, why the heck not?
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“Go plant a tree,” that made me smile. Thank you~!
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It was encountering the unexpected that made us laugh … and this was sooo unexpected.
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