73* gray marble

Being sick totally sucks...
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So I had a bit of an eerie experience this morning. I went to the funeral chapel where Kenny's service was held to meet the funeral director and his brother so they could loosen the lid on Kenny's marble urn. It wasn't supposed to be sealed tight but it was and it's been in the back of my mind to get it unsealed so I can spread portions of Kenny's ashes. I remember the care I took in picking his urn. It doesn't look at all like a typical urn- there aren't any engravings on it. I thought a box would be much too boring for him and he would've hated a metal vase so I chose a small round gray marble one with some lighter colored swirls. It's very Kenny-like to me.

~Kenny's urn~

I thought Steve(funeral director) was already there. The door was unlocked, I went into the chapel. It was completely quiet and all the office doors were closed. The hallway was kind of dark and creepy so I did not go check if someone was in the back. I waited on the bench in the entryway for about five minutes, no one appeared-and there was silence all around. I decided to go into the room where Kenny's service had been held. It looks different now. Today the room was bright without any lights on, maybe because of the hour in the morning bringing sunlight through the windows. There is a single row of long benches where there had been two rows with a middle aisle before. I didn't dare walk to the place where Kenny once lie. The makeshift bed is gone. Actually, he had been laid on a table made to look like a bed because he was to be cremated and not buried in a coffin. That back part of the room was dark. I went back into the entryway and knocked on the office door-only an echo answered me. 

I returned to the bench and waited longer, nearly 10 minutes later Steve and his brother opened the door and were surprised to see me waiting inside the building. Apparently, the door was not supposed to be open. It took only minutes for the lid on the urn to be sawed open. The buzzing sound broke the silence and I sat on the bench with my legs on my hands trying to block out the sound. Images of body parts being sawed played in my mind- it was really weird. When they brought it out to me, the urn was covered in white dust- looked like it could've been ash dust, but I don't think it was. Anyhow, I saw Kenny's ashes for the first time today. On Monday, I will go spread a small handful. I'm surprised at the amount of his remains in the little urn- I expected much less.
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Thank you to Ben for sharing Kenny stories with me--{:-))
Until tomorrow...PEACE to all

Element of the day (day 73)
#63) Eu- Europium-] metal 
Discovered in 1901 by Eugene Demarcay, France.
Used in some superconductor alloys as well as in television screens, where it produces the red color. A good neutron absorber, so it has uses in control rods for nuclear reactors. Also in lasers and certain alloys.

Obtained from bastnasite and monazite(where it occurs as an impurity), mined in the USA, China, Russia, Australia, and India.