Lilith and I followed a shave ice truck and trailer into the cemetery this morning. Five Sisters, it said on the back of the trailer, above a wooden door. Workers were already figuring out where the woman lived and to whom she was related, as well as who in the cemetery must know her, when we walked by her parked truck, which sported an LA Dodgers logo on it. Was someone going to have a funeral with shave ice? I wondered. Later, we saw the truck and trailer next to the booth where you pay to get into the Buddhist Temple grounds. The woman in the booth said, "guarantee that's why they're cutting everything down in there; more vendors!" The guy at the front gate said, "yeah, they're making it into Waikiki."
I looked up the Byodo-In Temple on-line. "Honoring over a century of tradition, tranquility & legacy," reads the headline. Beneath that you find "purchase tickets" button.
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