Victor MacKenzie, Memorial Day (2009), Rest in Peace

"That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven."

Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory

I just learned this evening that my brother-in-law has passed away in Austin, TX. Although his wife, my sister, is still with us, I thought immediately of the lost pair of kites rather like hearts...