Motel Hall Walking at Funerals

Randall Nathan has been out of town. He went to Dallas for the funeral of his cousin, Daniel. He had not seen him since they were Randy and Danny.

In the morning, before the funeral, he walked the halls of the motel. He has walked an hour a day for as long as anyone can remember. In the winter, he has to walk inside. He doesn't mind the cold, but he doesn't want to take another fall on the ice and end up in the hands of the Physical Terrorists. When he is at home, he does winter walking in the Possum Trot Mall.

Claire said she hoped he had not gone to his long-unseen cousin's funeral just to get good weather for walking, since Dallas got a record 22 inch snowfall. He was stuck with walking the motel halls.

He does that more and more, walking in motel halls, because he goes to funerals of relatives and friends a lot.

When he remembers Uncle Ned now, he sees the green diamonds of the hallway carpet in a Super 8. When he remembers Aunt Ola, he sees the maroon triangles of the hallway carpet in a Comfort Inn.

He hopes that when he dies, his relatives will stay at the Blue Bird Inn, so that when they remember him, they will see blue birds laughing up at them.