Life and more life. Near the Spooky Promontory, Moose River, New York, August 23, 2019.

Cardy And The Card

THURMAN LEE MUNSON

CAPTAIN OF THE NEW YORK YANKEES

1976-1979

So says the headstone of a man gone forty years today.

My great aunt bought this card for me a few months before she, high up among the kindest and most decent people I've known, died in as awful and undeserved a way as I can imagine, a lingering torture that didn't seem like any god could've ordered it.

And so, as this cardboard leans against other paper products in a small room in the North Country of New York, I must offer this:

CARMEEN REYNOLDS BEHAGE
NO NICER PERSON EVER WALKED THE EARTH
1906-1982