Eulogy For Friend

It was a warm, sunny, colorful, November day in the Miller household. They were all up to their usual afternoon activities. James was just getting home from another day of school at Lincoln High. Robert was out in the field tending to the crops and starting to wrap up what was bundel what was left of this years harvest. It was a great year for the crop. The corn and grain was some of the tallest I’d ever seen on the farm. Everything was absolutely splendid this year. What a wonderful time to be alive.

James was walking home from the bus, boy was he enjoying his senior year. He could not wait to go off to college. James wasn’t your average kid. He excelled in his educational activities and loved to play sports with his friends. James was nearing 6 feet tall this year. He towered over his mother and was starting to pass up his father. He was a muscular kid and his hands were extremely calloused from working on the farm every day. He had short dirty blond hair that looked like it hadn’t been combed since it first started growing on his …show more content…
Well my name is Herald, and well I guess you could call me the voice in James’s head. I act as his voice of reason when he wants to something really dumb, but other times I’ll say hey that’d be funny and boy do I get things wrong. Do you know that voice you hear in your head when you read things. Well that’s me, well not me, but it is someone just like me. Everyone has their very own Herald, well that sounds a little self righteous, but it’s true they’re just all not named Herald. I’ve been with James’s since he was a wee little lad. Actually the day Herald was born I was there. Now I could bore you with all the details of James’s life, but I doubt you would want to hear all the stories especially the one where he caught Ms. Smith’s hair on fire. I will just stick probably the most life changing event that ever happened to James. Well that’s enough about me let’s get back to the