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A volcano explosion on the day my father died delayed us from flying down to Puerto Rico. The ashes from the cloud above the nearby island of Monserrat kept most planes away that evening. The ash from the volcano can get in the jet plane engines and cause it to malfunction. We left the next morning when the ash settled down.

As you might imagine the past two weeks have been full of all sorts of incredible coincidences, weird experiences and remarkable turns of fate for the Fernós family.

One of the oddest experiences we had was the funeral parlor my father had picked out for his funeral service. Many years ago, my father must have come across the Celestium in a local architectural journal. It’s an unusual structure with an unusual function and an unusual staff. It is a crematorium and funeral home in the shape of a “Monolithic Dome” and it appears to be run by Puerto Rican new-age lesbians.

A monolithic dome is a structure that is built much like a large-scale piñata, where fiberglass rods are glued onto a large inflated bubble and upon curing are reinforced by spray-on concrete. Not only is it cheap to build, it also withstands hurricanes and looks a bit like a concrete Atlantis on dry land.

My father surely would have appreciated the Celestium for its other-worldliness, the Sleeping Beauty like coffin in which he laid and the bull dyke attendants.

Join Marc and I as we talk about my dad’s funeral, volcanoes, eulogies and spirits, and then out of nowhere, we’re joined by a special old friend from the past.

You can imagine the surprise and relief to know that our lost friend is alive and well and living in Florida. Who? Listen and find out!

When god closes a door, she opens a window into the Feast of Fools podcast.

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