A Wooden Cross

~A Wooden Cross~ South of Lafayette on interstate 65 I saw a wooden cross. The roadside monument, weathered and grey, was a tribute to a loved one who lost his life in a car crash. At 70 mph I only saw it for an instant, yet it was time enough to see the cowboy hat that proudly perched on the weathered wooden cross. I didn’t know the cowboy nor his wife. I didn’t attend the funeral. But for just an instant I felt both the sorrow and the love that poured from the weathered wooden cross with cowboy hat on interstate 65.