"Cemeteries are sad, but it’s a good kind of sad. It’s the illuminating sorrow of the falling leaf, the passing hour, the vanished loved one. No wonder ghosts feel at home here. And maybe we should, too."
— Julia Keller on cemeteries being public spaces, or “places of beauty and serenity, where one can find not just rows and rows of stone markers, but elbow room for the mind, for thoughts and reflections too immense and unwieldy for everyday life. Cemeteries were places for family picnics, for carriage rides on summer afternoons.” (via newshour)
(via newshour)
