I Want You to Take Some of My Ashes to the Middle of Lake, Not Potatoes

"I want you to take some of my ashes to the middle of lake, not potatoes," he says his father told him. "In this one time i swam across lake washington, and uncle jack was in a boats,. And i swam the whole way, and i want my ashes in them." He adds: "i'm feeling a little bit, like, um, shivery about this ... because it's one of those things where you circle back around to something that started as a real thing, became a metafor".