Soar Eternally Free

I realized I hadn't shared where I got Soar Eternally Free from.  So, story time!

I was trying to think of a name for myself and my EOL business - it seemed all the logical and good names where taken already.  I just sat tossing names out and free associating for over an hour before I hit on Crow - crow - fly - crows soar....

Dumb... D'oh ... Christina *homer simpsons do'h* 

It took me way to long to figure this no brainer out  and it made me laugh.
When my brother died in 1997, we were at the funeral home getting things set up and it came to deciding what to put on the urn for his ashes.  The usual, "RIP," or "forever in our hearts," did not fit my brother at all.   I asked if it could wait for the moment and left it at that.

Moments  after he was cremated we all stepped outside for fresh air and I looked up over the crematory stack and saw several jets pluming as they flew by.  From my angle it looked like they flew right through the smoke and I said something like, "Houston we have lift off," to sort of break the horrible grief and sobbing tears.   We all laughed but the image of Tommy, Soaring Eternally Free stayed with me.

I used it in my memorial speech for him and I also asked the funeral home to put that on his Urn. 

Now I use it whenever I express my condolences to someone who has had a loved one die.  It is also how I see myself during my last breath on Earth. Paused on a high cliff, in the desert at sunset, waiting to Soar.

So that is the story and it is why I am here.  We may not want to talk about our last moments or last breaths but I think it is best to talk, to plan, to be ready ... to soar.