Our creative children have decided that their father's ashes need to be distributed over many places. He loved to travel and look for adventures around every turn. I am not surprised that they have come up with this way to memoralize their father. We scattered ashes at Granddad's Bluff in LaCrosse, Wisconsin last weekend while visiting Katie and Drew and Fiona. It was a place we visited often after the kids moved there in 1999. It is a bluff that overlooks the entire Missisippi river bend at LaCrosse---you can see for miles in all directions. The day Fiona was born we headed up there mid morning---Kent wanted to spend part of his first day as a grandfather on Granddad's bluff!
Last Saturday, we gathered the family and some dear friends for a picnic at Lake Aquabi in Indianola as a send-off for Rachel before she left for her year as a Rotary Exchange student to Argentina. Mark and Rod launched Kent's canoe and took Rachel out to the center of the lake where she scattered the next group of ashes. His brother Jerry, and nephew Jeff took another canoe and accompanied them. It was just at dusk, which my friend Pam pointed out was the beginning of Passover. It was another beautiful tribute to Kent and the difference he has made in so many lives. He loved to spend time at Aquabi, many nice weekends would find us out out there hiking, or launching the canoe.
We will be heading to Colorado in early June to distribute more of his ashes in the Colorado Rockies. Rebecca will be taking a group of family members on a white water raft trip down the Arkansas to scatter more of his ashes. Drew and Katie have been planning a family trip for the Britten's to Ireland in June of 2006 so we will save some to take to his homeland. They have plans to trek to the Boundary water canoe area---a favorite place for Kent to spend time with his kids, nephews and brothers. The list will continue . . . . .
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