Obituary of Edward J Scaglione

•                  THE NEXT PLACE I GO...

The next place I go will be as peaceful and familiar as a

sleepy summer Sunday and a sweet untroubled mind. And

yet it won't be anything like any placeI've ever been or 

seen or even dreamed of in the place I leave behind. I wont

Tumble through the always and look back towards the when.

I'll fly into the wonder, without ever wondering why. I won't

remember getting there. Somehow I'll just arrive. But I'll know

thatI belong there and will feel much more alive than I ever

felt before. I will be absolutely free of the things that I held

onto thet were holding onto me. The next place that I go will

be so quite and so still that the whispered song of sweet 

belonging will rise up and fill the listening sky with joyful

silence, and with unheard harmonies of music made by no one

playing, like a hush upon a breeze. There will be no room for

darkness in that place of living light.Where an ever-dawning

morning pushes back the dying night. The next place that I go

won't really be a place at all. There won't be any seasons-

winter, summer, spring or fall-Not a Monday, nor a Friday, nor

December, nor July. And the seconds will be standing still---

while hours hurray by. I will not be a boy or girl, a woman or a

man, I'll simply be just , simply me. The body I once lived in

won't be part of me at all. I will finally be perfect. I will never

make one more mistake or break the smallest law. And then 

the me that was impatient, or was angry or unkind will simply

be a memory. The me I left behind . There is not a single thing I

have collected in my life that I would ever want to bring

except the love of those who loved me. and the warmth of

those who cared. Through I know the joy of solitude I'll

never be alone. I'll  be embraced by all the family and friends

i"ve ever known. Although I might not seetheir faces, all our

hearts will beat as one, and the circles of our spirts will shine

brighter than the sun. I will cherish all the friendships I was

fortunate to find, all the love and all the laughter in the place I

leave behind. All these good things will go with me. And that

light will shine forever in the next place I go.

                           Love Daddy