It was wonderful seeing my siblings today, but it was for a somber reason. We finally fulfilled the last wish of my mother to have some of her ashes spread near where my father’s ashes were spread. She died just over ten years ago, and within a year or so, with my daughter, I spread ashes in Italy on the beach near the base where she met my father. This was a final chapter, but my siblings and I are each keeping some of her ashes with each of us, too. We decided it would be a trip with just us three and not our partners or even our busy kids (we each have one). We did not film the actual act, but my siblings loved seeing a corner of the California coast they were not familiar with (Bolinas), and it is even closer to the coordinates where my father’s ashes were spread by the Neptune Society.