Bury Me Green
By Jodi Peterson, Dear friends
Singer/songwriter John Winn of Grand Junction, Colo., tells us his latest CD, Wild Stallion, contains a song titled “Mother Earth” that was inspired by one of our Writers on the Range opinion columns. “Just bury me out on the lone prairie” appeared on Jan. 12, 2004, and described author Patricia Walsh’s wish for a “natural, environmentally sound burial.”
John writes: “Patricia talks about her desire to be buried without embalming in her favorite flannel shirt and sweatpants and sheepskin slippers, wrapped in one of her favorite flannel sheets, out in the prairie somewhere. I always had the thought that I’d like to be buried in a Kansas cornfield in a similar manner, refertilizing the soil.”