Becoming Prayer

a eulogy for my grandfather

Nan & Paz in 1946

My grandfather, Paz, died on Good Friday, April 3, 2015. I wasn’t able to be with him when he passed, so I went instead to the place where he had lived when I was a child. A tornado destroyed that home and the outlying buildings in 2011. But as I say in the eulogy you’re about to read, which I delivered at his funeral, I prayed there on…