Funeral

Konrad Marshall: Christopher Ryan Lane should not be present at this mournful event, on this mercifully mild winter morning. He grew up here but he does not belong in this place. Not in this moment.

He should be over there, far away, across the pacific and beyond the rockies and past the bronzed expanse of southwest, ensconsed in the hospitable warmth of a cornfed small town in Middle America.