Fifteen Florida Cemeteries

Hey hep cats & kittens, just cuz you find yourself in reduced circumstances doesn't mean you don't need and deserve some vacation time. Babs and Ms. Vicki have now embarked in full force on the following tour:



Our first stop was in Micanopy.  Now I'm not sayin' that anybody inadvertently backed over a headstone or fell into a fresh grave, but we did have a spooktacular time...

Micanopy Cemetery 10/29/11.  Photo Courtesy of Ms. Vicki.

Do you like graveyards? I do. On vacation, I always make it a point to take in at least one historical cemetery. In a world composed of furious nanosecond sound bytes, a cemetery offers peace, reflection, and literary pause.

If you are of like mind, and/or perhaps had, or have an imaginary friend (you are whimsical), and you have a nice rainy Sunday to tuck in...please read "The Graveyard Book."

This read is worth it alone for the catalog of tombstone epithets that the author uses to introduce characters to his readers. BTW, most of the characters happen to be dead.

--Lost to All But Memory
--Swans Sing Before they Die
--Who did no harm to no man all the days of her life. Reader, can you say likewise?
--What she spent is lost, what she gave remains with her always.
--Reader be Charitable.
--Deeply regretted by all who knew him.
--Traveler Lay Down Thy Staff
--Laugh

The "Graveyard Book" will cause you to "Momento Mori" (remember your death) but most of all encourage you to "see the world...get into trouble. Get out of trouble again. Visit jungles and volcanoes and deserts and islands. And people-- meet an awful lot of people."