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If being hard on yourself worked it would have worked by now.
rosling ✶
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artist creature, different from a creature artist
artist creature, different from a creature artist
![What better way
is there to
understand a culture
than to witness
how they treat
their dead?
[Images of a bunch of shoes laid about]
[shot of a man putting on shoes to leave]
"We're going to pay our respects to your great-grandparents."
CRANEBONES: Can I come, too?
"You? You don't have to."
"This is a duty for the men."
[A shot of Cranebones saying, "I'd like to go"]
"Fine, come along."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g7diml3o5czy3feqhl6jat2x/bafkreiail3huthp6id73o3j5yoihioqvvxlqzjld5g5gw6s3alyekk7vxa)
![[Two panels of a mountain forest path]
[A shot of two burial mounds side by side with offering tables in front with some fruit and soju]
[A shot of two men in the front and Cranebones in the back]
"We bow once to the living, twice to the dead."
"Men in the front."
"Women in the back"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g7diml3o5czy3feqhl6jat2x/bafkreicdshp6usqe5hkthvhwh3cfogeunbf7a3an3j7b4sflu4qh3ecadu)
!["The ancestors are here."
[A shot of Cranebones looking ahead at the burial mounds]
Grandpa died of a cancer they found too late
Dad flew to Korea as soon as we heard Grandpa was dying.
I'm told, in his confusion, Grandpa kept asking for my brother.
[Two shots of Cranebones's grandpa in a hospital bed. Two men are visiting him]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g7diml3o5czy3feqhl6jat2x/bafkreicp6t44ickgrnoyf6cvpbyxulp4ortmeprzzh7airnomq36ebniy4)
![[A shot of a family of five, with one child in white for emphasis]
Grandpa wept with joy when my brother was born.
He loved that boy and dearly missed him.
I'm told my uncles asked when my sister would introduce them to her husband.
[a shot of 3 men talking to each other]
[a shot of a newly wed couple]
"How many years has it been since the wedding?"
"They need to come visit!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g7diml3o5czy3feqhl6jat2x/bafkreicsfj45zzkact43jeclv2qf7gfusfdaggdxgx7p54mtljllfdjcgm)
