I'm sorry, Connie. I wish that I lived near so that I could offer to go with you.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Vortex - Jul 12, 2008 7:03:21 pm PDT #6842 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Tamara - Jul 12, 2008 7:04:07 pm PDT #6843 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Connie, I wish you much strength and the ability to cope.
Fay - Jul 12, 2008 7:16:06 pm PDT #6844 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Bloody hell. Punctuation all round, people.
Susan W. - Jul 12, 2008 7:17:45 pm PDT #6845 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm sorry, Connie. Strength and peace to you.
javachik - Jul 12, 2008 7:19:04 pm PDT #6846 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
You may have to figure another way to acknowledge her passing.
This. You are the only person who knows all of the mysteries of your relationship, and are beholden to no one else with the way you deal with her passing.
I speak as someone who disowned her biological mother years ago, and know that at some point I will have to answer the same call. You have my sympathy and my heartfelt wishes for peace.
Drew, you already know how I feel, as does Kristin.
SailAweigh - Jul 12, 2008 7:19:50 pm PDT #6847 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I'm so sorry, connie. It's still a hard situation to wrap your head around. Ease~ma for whatever chances to happen.
Cass - Jul 12, 2008 7:24:32 pm PDT #6848 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
That's a difficult place to be, Connie. My sympathies.
Connie Neil - Jul 12, 2008 7:25:42 pm PDT #6849 of 10001
brillig
Mother went into a nursing home on Wednesday. My middle sister, who's borne the brunt of immediate monitoring--Mother had been living in an assisted living apartment--then left to go to North Carolina with her new husband for a vacation. Last night she fell out of bed and just seemed bruised, but earlier this morning she was disoriented and when the staff checked on her later, she was gone. I suspect she was trying to leave. Mother was not a woman to give up her independence lightly.
Hubby won't be going with me, both from constraints of budget and because I'm not sticking him on a plane for eight hours. The only flights I've found are red-eyes from Salt Lake with a 4-hour layover in New York, then on to Pittsburgh.
No, I am not the person they knew. My sisters' husbands have never met me, and my niece and nephew have no memory of me. I don't expect miraculous reconciliations, but I think I can avoid weird recriminations. And I will be the same person afterwards that I've always been.
Humble thanks to you all. I am a blessed woman.
Pix - Jul 12, 2008 7:25:51 pm PDT #6850 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I would like to take a stand and say that today has sucked. Ptui.
Burrell - Jul 12, 2008 7:26:07 pm PDT #6851 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh connie, I'm sorry. I hope you find peace with your family, it sounds like things are hard with them as well.