Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readApr 30, 2024

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I'm glad you figured out how to get your time there. One of the reasons I ended up spending 18 months in New Hampshire Dec 2020-April 2022 is I would and did get to visit Lindsey's grave several times. I had not been able to attend the funeral when she passed due to COVID restrictions. I spent hours at a time lying above her. I penned this tanka on the many miles walk home after the visit on the first deathiversary:

Prone all day with you

Bathing cemetery sun

Cry arrive cry left

Twixt telepathy lovers

like Sunday under covers

Have you ever seen the Ricky Gervais series After Life? Much of it involves grief and many scenes take place in the cemetery where he and a woman he met there have wonderfully spiritual conversations even though they are both atheists. I wrote a bit about the series here. https://medium.com/promptly-written/spiritual-prompts-5-29-thru-6-4-2f65ac86dfcf I had binge-watched it two years ago and just did it again last week. It's only three seasons, six mostly less than 30-minute episodes per season.

Debra Harman posted a beautiful essay recently about her grief and prolonged cemetery visits to her brother's grave, who also died young. https://medium.com/the-wind-phone/how-i-grew-to-love-crows-in-the-cemetery-378bc44dd011

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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