I am asking myself if I have the two looms of round fruit to make an anonymous phone call. Get out in under 30 seconds, you know, can't trace it. Maybe use a cloned phone and dump it in a pond and pray it freezes or flick it - with its dialpad - among five gallon buckets and clip-on tape measures scattered across the bed of a truck. It'd be worth $.25 on a standing pay phone. "Collect call from ... will you accept the charges brought against you?"
PBS' Frontline is airing "The Undertaking" beginning at 4 a.m. tonight. "...how Americans cope with death, grief and life." This would be great for out-of-work research for interested people. Thought it would be me watching a documentary like this to prepare me for my first pre-need or at-need burial. Thought material like this would compliment local and regional visits I would make to funeral homes or in the offices of religious leaders. Maybe even professional squares of estate attorneys. "Well, I watched this documentary a couple weeks ago..."
The contact us tab on their lousy web site has added "Barbvara" as their development director, but the big box beside "Foxfield Preserve Cemetery" remains blank. I have to wait at least two more weeks for the January newsletter to be published to see if they hired anyone or - if as I suspect - came to a consensus to all pitch in and rotate responsibilities.
The steward is on-call 24/7, but who would answer? The once full-time, now staying on as part-time steward or the newly hired steward?
As I reread Frontline's program description I only wanted the show to be something I could have watched ... something intended for a steward of burials in a green cemetery. Hold your horses, let the living make arrangements in a funeral home before they make peace at a final resting place. Let the undertaker take over to wash and dress the body.
Someone has a lot of explaining to do.
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