Wurm and the Whales
For those who don't know, Chrys has been cremated and most of his ashes will be spread in Hawaii and China (his 2 favorite travel destinations). We are also keeping some ashes with us in one small and one enormous bronze humpback whale sculpture/urn. The burgundy box contains the ashes to be spread, the small whales will be kept by Andy & Vicky, and the Super-sized Whale will be kept with me.
It was a long, and rather funny process of shopping for an urn. Vicki and I would often make comments about how Chrys was laughing at us as we were shopping for the perfect urn. We had discovered the mini-whale "memento-urn" at the mortuary where Chrys was to be cremated. However, it was no longer in production, so we had to shop online for another urn for myself. After visiting 40+ urn websites and looking at every urn on the market, I had determined that the target market for urns was not exactly 30-something non-religious gay men in San Francisco.
I did keep coming back to the site with the giant whale. It's actually an original bronze sculpture converted into an urn. I called the website because I was certain that the dimensions were wrong - could they be advertising the shipping size with box and packaging? (13" high and 19" wide). But indeed, it really was a giant whale urn.
Whenever we were in Hawaii, Chrys and I would go into those marine life art stores where you could buy humpback whale sculpture coffee tables and 6 foot tall leaping dolphin statues. Chrys would always have a glee in his eye when he saw this type of (ahem, tacky) art work. I'd always agree, yes it's quite a piece of work, but that's not going to match the style of our future living room, so we'll have to pass for now...
Well, after a week of shopping for a tasteful urn, I realized that Chrys would be most thrilled with the choice of the giant humpback whale urn (I could almost hear his giggle laugh “Yay!” as I purchased the urn online. And if it makes Chrys happy, then it certainly makes me happy. Now I can’t stop admiring my new piece of marine life artwork!
I love you baby. I miss you.
It was a long, and rather funny process of shopping for an urn. Vicki and I would often make comments about how Chrys was laughing at us as we were shopping for the perfect urn. We had discovered the mini-whale "memento-urn" at the mortuary where Chrys was to be cremated. However, it was no longer in production, so we had to shop online for another urn for myself. After visiting 40+ urn websites and looking at every urn on the market, I had determined that the target market for urns was not exactly 30-something non-religious gay men in San Francisco.
I did keep coming back to the site with the giant whale. It's actually an original bronze sculpture converted into an urn. I called the website because I was certain that the dimensions were wrong - could they be advertising the shipping size with box and packaging? (13" high and 19" wide). But indeed, it really was a giant whale urn.
Whenever we were in Hawaii, Chrys and I would go into those marine life art stores where you could buy humpback whale sculpture coffee tables and 6 foot tall leaping dolphin statues. Chrys would always have a glee in his eye when he saw this type of (ahem, tacky) art work. I'd always agree, yes it's quite a piece of work, but that's not going to match the style of our future living room, so we'll have to pass for now...Well, after a week of shopping for a tasteful urn, I realized that Chrys would be most thrilled with the choice of the giant humpback whale urn (I could almost hear his giggle laugh “Yay!” as I purchased the urn online. And if it makes Chrys happy, then it certainly makes me happy. Now I can’t stop admiring my new piece of marine life artwork!
I love you baby. I miss you.
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