Holy Hope Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona, that had live flowers always at the grave. The other graves had silk or plastic flowers, but one grave always had a water vase on a holder with bird of paradise flowers at the feet of a statue of the crucified Yahoshua. Year after year, it was the same when I lived there in the 1990's, the bird of paradise flowers at Mrs. Joseph Bonano's crypt. I wonder if her son brings the flowers to her grave now as her husband did during his lifetime after her death. My parents lived near the Bonanos in Tucson and Mrs. Bonano all the years they were neighbors went to mass at Saints Peter and Paul Church every morning for the 6 AM mass. Her husband paid for 90% of the construction costs of the church and school. He did a lot that was wrong in his life but like Robin Hood, he gave back a lot, too.

in the Victorian book of meanings of flowers from the 1800's, pansies mean thoughts. Ariel Sharon and his sons thoughts were of Lili so it is appropriate and sweet to have pansies at her grave. In the 1800's people in Victorian England would give bouquets of flowers to friends and loved ones with the meaning of the message given by the flowers selected.

of the pansies on Lili's grave. Our thoughts are with you, Lili and Arik. Our thoughts are with you. Even in death, friendships live on. The symbol of that is ivy encircling a fallen tree in Victorian England. Ivy encircling a fallen tree. Perhaps that could be put into the headstone of the grave of General Sharon: ivy encircling a fallen tree.