what remains

I haven't picked up his ashes, yet. His mother thought that I should be the one who decides what happens with them. I am going to give some of the cremains to his ex-wife (they have a daughter together) so she can spread it where they went to school together. They were high school sweet hearts and, I think, he would want to be near his daughter, too. I will keep the rest. My 8-year-old requested a little portion she can keep in her memory box and, eventually, when I'm ready to let go, I will spread the rest of his ashes into the Hudson River. He used to love to jump into the raging current of this dirty New York house river. Several times he also dared himself to jump off the C-Rock, a 30-foot high cliff in an estuary of the river between the isle of Manhattan and the Bronx.

I miss that crazy boy.



C-Rock from Eric Branco on Vimeo.