September 6th, 2012
Dearly departed Serina Lane was only 17 years old when she was traded to aliens in exchange for a pollution-free America.
It is safe to say that she was one for the environment to take this one "for the team". She rarely got to enjoy the lush greenery that is Chicago; only once a month did she enjoy it at her birthplace of Iowa. She may have been raised in the city, but she never lost her country corn-eating roots.
She had a love for animals, especially her 2 cat children. Animals and nature were her main subjects in her photography. Photography was a huge hobby of hers. Whenever she got the chance she would run and get her camera in hopes that a bird would still be in a tree. She once told me a story of a blue jay. One that allowed her to get closer and closer while she snapped away. It had its beak open, as if showing a smile. She was so close that she wasn't even in zoom. If one were to look at the picture, it would be exactly in the distance that her eyes perceived.
She told this story to others; one said that it could sense that she meant it no harm, and allowed her to take these pictures.
Serina was one with nature, so close that, as she did not have a tripod, simply used a tree as a tripod -- trusting it not to drop her $700 camera...
She loved to read at her own pace; the range on the type of books were not what one would think. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten - a book for a philosopher's mind, Vampire Diaries - a curiosity as to compare to the TV series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - an old time favorite for Greek mythology, also one she couldn't remember about a Native American boy and a wolf cub...
One thing about Serina...she loved philosophy. It was one of those subjects that there really was no wrong answer to. Perhaps morally wrong...but it is all in the mind of the person doing the thinking; the perspective.
If anything more to say, one should have asked her more to get to know her better than I conjure up to put in this eulogy.
If she were alive and not too lazy to go get her laptop to post the bird picture, I'm sure she would.
Your eulogy is very creative. I admire that you are a team player and I also like how you basically explain why you do like philosophy and the dentition of it.
ReplyDeletei agree with Turner above, this eulogy was indeed very creative and i had a great time reading it.
ReplyDelete"But it is all in the mind of the person doing the thinking; the perspective." Haha, that's exactly my opinion. And honestly, if you go even farther, you could say that because everything depends on the perspective, the only way to change anything in the world is to change yourself, you own view. That's so crazy awesome to me.
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