Forgotten

A big, scenic, famous cemetery on the West Coast of the United States.

What a downer for Christmas? No, you'll see.

They have been working on clearing poison oak, trees, dense brush from an old area of the cemetery.

We are strolling through a recently cleared section. Outlines of graves are now visible again, and we, who like to think of ourselves as agnostics, tread lightly.

There is one small grave, with a small, white marble headstone. A child's grave, a girl.

We stop and look at the headstone that is lying face up at the top of the small plot.

A big chunk of the left top of the originally square stone is missing.

The inscription on the headstone reads "Forgotten". The chunk with the "Not" went missing at some point in the one hundred years plus after the little human was laid to rest here.

See, there is hope.