There are times when I hear my phone ring and still expect it to be my dad or when I will call down to Mom's house and for just a moment will be surprised when dad doesn't pick up the phone.
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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NoiseDesign - Aug 04, 2010 9:15:51 pm PDT #27523 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Burrell - Aug 04, 2010 9:39:22 pm PDT #27524 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My condolences Steph. I'm so glad you can be there for Tim right now.
Cass - Aug 04, 2010 9:47:51 pm PDT #27525 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Tep, my condolences to you and Tim and his family. It's hard to lose someone you love and who loves you, but there is something lovely that she got to leave on her own terms.
and it was sunny and the house looked like nothing had happened, and it was WEIRD.
Oh, god. When my grandma died at my folks house? I had been staying there every other night or there two nights and then gone one. We had this whole rhythm. And then we didn't. It was like the world went back to normal without it being normal. It was really hard or weird to see. But no one really stopped missing her or, I hope, being glad that she wasn't suffering so terribly now.
The first days truly are a strange, surreal time. Life just...goes on, and it's so hard to believe that it does.
What Scrappy said. Time is inevitable as hard as that is sometimes.
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Wow, bye Prop 8. I am sorry I know people who voted for you. They swear they wouldn't do it again and were confused but really they are just ... them.
I saw South Pacific tonight. Which is what you do when a very lovely family friend who is in town to settle her mom's estate invites you. Many scenes are improved when you imagine drag kings performing some of the songs. meara, I thought of some of your friends. Fondly. And they included Hey, Racism Isn't Just Borned which is likely not the original title of that song. It was gorgeous staging and, with all of the scenes and songs intact, better than I feared. Plus I had two generous glasses of wine before we all left. That helped.
omnis_audis - Aug 04, 2010 9:57:31 pm PDT #27526 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
ugg. too many stairs at work today. Legs are screaming in 3 part harmony. Anyone got a good source for a new set?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 04, 2010 11:04:57 pm PDT #27527 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Congrats on Prop 8, Americans, and especially Californians! Fantastic news.
Legs are screaming in 3 part harmony.
Empathising here. Hope you get to rest them a bit!
billytea - Aug 04, 2010 11:11:12 pm PDT #27528 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Legs are screaming in 3 part harmony.
We don't want to know how you get three parts, do we?
Cass - Aug 04, 2010 11:20:02 pm PDT #27529 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
We don't want to know how you get three parts, do we?
Calf part, thigh part, ... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! There are only two parts.
Beverly - Aug 04, 2010 11:26:29 pm PDT #27530 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Knee. Really screamy part.
Cass - Aug 04, 2010 11:40:53 pm PDT #27531 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
You know, you'd think I'd remember that part. It was the last part that went screamy on me.
Trudy Booth - Aug 05, 2010 1:25:20 am PDT #27532 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Except that where you were before isn't anywhere to be gone to anymore, there is just this weird new Here that doesn't have the person you lost anymore. And you have to realize that again and again and again, countless times. It's part and parcel of the surreality, that feeling that you will wake up and it won't really have happened and you can go back.
My pet theory is that you're re-learning how the world works. And the world is too -- for the first time in 60 or so years the sun rose this morning without Tim's Mom in it and everything has to be reconfigured now that this vital piece is missing.