| Image Views: 4508 Yesterday, I made a trip to the Graceland Cemetery .. A truly amazing place .. It's absolutely beautiful with walking paths bordered by massive oaks, elms and maples, looking even more impressive with autumn foliage.. I was particularly struck by this tomb of Dr. Christopher D. Manuel [1964-2005] .. It evoked many feelings; tranquility and melancholy mixed with peacefulness and reflectiveness .. The boy with flute really drew me to him .. He seemed so one-with-nature, lost in some melodious tune ... alomst dreamlike, very surreal .. On the headstone was etched the words .. "In Memory of our Beautiful and Beloved Son Christopher" .. On the side were these words .. For all we know, this may only be a dream .. We come and go like ripples on a stream .. For all we know, tomorrow may never come .. For all we know.. For more on Graceland Cemetery.. click here.. Graceland Cemetery is the final resting place of many of Chicago luminaries .. pioneers, civic planners, businessmen, architects, politicians .. like the first white settler in chicago John Kinzie, retailing giant Marshall Fields, railroad car manufacturer George M. Pullman, piano manufacturer William W Kimball, architects Louis H. Sullivan, John W. Root, Howard Van Doren Shaw among others .. |