home-going

And there was something sort of sad and homely about having to have her final home-going service in that little room rather than in the beautiful sanctuary for which she had sewn the draperies of the baptismal font, the same place that my mother was memorialized.

Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina' 2010

And there was something sort of sad and homely about having to have her final home-going service in that little room rather than in the beautiful sanctuary for which she had sewn the draperies of the baptismal font, the same place that my mother was memorialized.

Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina' 2010

And there was something sort of sad and homely about having to have her final home-going service in that little room rather than in the beautiful sanctuary for which she had sewn the draperies of the baptismal font, the same place that my mother was memorialized.

Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina' 2010

All the tennis games are grouped together, all the bridges, all the meadows, all the home-going figures – schoolmates, goose-girls, hop-pickers, cows, uniformly trudging right to left against a moody horizon.

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 – review Laura Cumming 2010

And there was something sort of sad and homely about having to have her final home-going service in that little room rather than in the beautiful sanctuary for which she had sewn the draperies of the baptismal font, the same place that my mother was memorialized.

Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina' 2010

And there was something sort of sad and homely about having to have her final home-going service in that little room rather than in the beautiful sanctuary for which she had sewn the draperies of the baptismal font, the same place that my mother was memorialized.

Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina' 2010

And there was something sort of sad and homely about having to have her final home-going service in that little room rather than in the beautiful sanctuary for which she had sewn the draperies of the baptismal font, the same place that my mother was memorialized.

Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina' 2010

And there was something sort of sad and homely about having to have her final home-going service in that little room rather than in the beautiful sanctuary for which she had sewn the draperies of the baptismal font, the same place that my mother was memorialized.

Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina' 2010

The crowd began to dwindle, and the few police officers that remained began to relax as the home-going for Hamilton was coming to a close without incident.

Déjà Vu Suzetta Perkins 2009

The crowd began to dwindle, and the few police officers that remained began to relax as the home-going for Hamilton was coming to a close without incident.

Déjà Vu Suzetta Perkins 2009