- Dad and me
Apr 23
A tag cloud of the eulogy I gave at my Dad's funeral
My last post reminded me of something I wanted to do a while ago, but never got around to it. I created a tag cloud of the eulogy I gave at my Dad’s funeral.
For those that don’t know, a tag cloud is a visual representation of words based on the frequency of how often they are used. So, the more a word is used, the larger it is.
I used a free service called ‘Wordle‘ – you just copy text in or a URL and it does the work for you. You can even customize to change the colours, the layout and how many words you want included. I chose to show the top 15 words (and to ignore the most common English words, such as ‘the’, ‘at’, ‘is’ etc).
Jun 21
Today is the first father’s day without my dad. I spent it at his grave site, planting flowers around his headstone, together with my family. There were a lot of families spending their day the same way.
We also wanted to start a tradition of releasing helium filled balloons attached with personal notes that we’ve written. Unfortunately, the helium filled balloons didn’t last very long and when we tied the notes to them, they didn’t float away. Frustrating, but also funny.
So, instead we burned them. We had a teeny bonfire with all the little notes in the front of the new garden we planted. Ashes to ashes…
My note was supposed to float away and lead whoever found it to this blog post. I also wrote my 6 words poem:
The cardinal sings; I remember him.
And I do.
