In the town of Rogers I have been intrigued by a lone graveyard that sits amidst graded lots awaiting construction projects. A Cub grocery store and a Lowes hardware store are close to the site. The church is long gone. All that remains are the tombstones and a gravel road that surrounds it.
What that graveyard reminds me of is that we are all building on and around the remains of those who have gone before. I don't know who the dead are, and what they did with their lives. But they lived at one time, and they built connections, both positive and negative, and those who have come after have constructed their lives on the foundation of what they were given. In the construction the offspring have either continued the road on, or took their lives in other directions.
None of us start from scratch.
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