FOND FAREWELL

A friend of mine had an aunt who was into health food way before anybody else even considered it. She would send away for special beans and powders and nuts. And sure enough, she kept trim and lively

and never got sick. But her family did not approve. It wasn’t how the Lord meant folks to eat. At a ripe old age, this aunt went into a coma.

“See?” said her family. “When her natural time came, her mind passed but her body was too healthy to go.”

ROY BLOUNT JNR., in Garden and Gun