To the Editor:

I don’t fairly perceive an article that’s mainly bragging about spending cash on a headstone, together with an announcement, {that a} deceased father or mother says all are equal. Then the next printing an image of a good looking aged grave of one other household’s pricey beloved one, then mainly criticizing one other household’s family members, place of restful peace? This being printed publicly, with none thought or concern in regards to the identify and the dwelling family members’ emotions about their relative, or getting used as a instance of not stunning by the author of this unusual article. It’s offensive for my part. This text is just a opinion of 1 individual and the artist that was paid a number of cash to construct a sculpture. This text doesn’t signify your entire inhabitants of the Valley’s opinion.

Peace and relaxation, from worldly possessions and the phrases of the bible, go hand in hand. All individuals have totally different views of artwork and wonder in life. I personally discover the older gravesite….peaceable and serenely stunning. Liked in life and treasured, as a result of the identify represents a lot. So when the Ukiah Every day Journal brings a voice of a pair individuals, as in the event that they signify your entire Potter Valley native residents, I imagine an apology ought to be printed for evaluating graves. Severely, take into consideration that, evaluating graves! It’s not a contest individuals. It’s a final place of peaceable relaxation. Don’t we get sufficient criticism in life? Now, some, would criticize the place of relaxation, afterlife?

Are the individuals criticizing within the article prepared to place their again breaking work in, years and years, into your entire cemetery? Raking, pulling weeds, clearing storm broken tree limbs,  or will they place dwelling grown flowers and flags, on graves, on a regular basis, yearly, like plenty of residents did? Or are these individuals, the sort of those that dwell someplace else, drive in and criticise with their opinion, then go away. Anybody that knew or was or is said to those frontier households is aware of the dedication and lifelong of volunteer work that was achieved by these great individuals. Work achieved for the good thing about all, not only one. For my part, this text is disrespectful to different’s place of relaxation, the family members nonetheless dwelling, and was carelessness of the guts. Bragg about what was achieved in your loved ones’s honor, all you need. However printing an image of one other’s household stone to indicate your opinion alone is unsuitable.

Magnificence is within the eye of the beholder, I personally, love the older, settling, moss coated, charming names on the older gravestones. The resting place of family members I imagine, are are all stunning in God’s eyes. And all graves ought to be included as real timeless originals and because the final place a relaxation with out judgment. Many names are within the cemetery. Many such names of honorable and selfless, outdated and new frontier households, whose stones are as stunning at this time as prior to now and remembered with love due to the tales shared, the life kinds of way back and the class that point provides, to a frontier legacy cemetery and all cemetery stones.

-Catherine Lair, Ukiah