She was a few yards away from me, moving among the graves, pausing here and there to bend over and peer, as if trying to make out the inscriptions, before moving on again.
This week, I was shouting back at some sophistry on the radio when our two-year-old picked up the remote control for the stereo, levelled it at my head and, with a grave expression, pressed "pause".
A Fire Department chaplain read Scripture, and then the assembled firefighters passed by Firefighter Beddia's grave in formation, pausing to salute in pairs.
His father's pause, his grave look, his utter attention: "If I were a millionaire, I would pay for the privilege of teaching".
Standing at the side of the two freshly dug graves Mostafa Dawa pauses, raises his hands, and leads a short prayer.
The settlers, however, view the pause as a grave threat.
Not everyone who goes there wants to pause at the grave of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the Doors who died in 1971 of a drug overdose.
Setting course for an ancient mosque further up the slope, they would veer quickly off past the singer's grave, though few dared to pause long by its rubble.Five months ago, a group of fans rebuilt the tomb, a small concrete dome on six spidery legs.
Mr. Pinkerfeld paused by the grave of the second man, Reuven Mairi.
Mr. Taylor paused in the grave manner of a Roman emperor before raising his thumb.
