Wishing you and your family strength, amyth.
Book~ma, Barb, and happy launch day.
Shir, you're such a star! Let us know how it goes. I hope they make real changes as a result of your campaigning.
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 23, 2010 12:04:49 pm PST #9347 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
billytea - Nov 23, 2010 12:12:16 pm PST #9348 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.
Tel Aviv city council member just emailed me about Hollaback Israel, asking to meet with me and talk about how to make the streets of Tel Aviv-Yafo safer to women. With laws and whatnot.
This is excellent. It's great to feel you're making a difference.
amyth - Nov 23, 2010 12:15:39 pm PST #9349 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Thanks, y'all. So much.
Ah, my middle brother. So funny, so charming, so smart, and by far one of the most self-involved people I have ever met. He's amaaaaayzing. I've learned not to expect anything from him over the years, but he still manages to surprise me.
I'm know that he's in a lot of pain over this. He and my other brother grew up together, whereas there's a seventeen-year gap between me and them. Just his way of dealing with it is so foreign to me. It's like he only perceives it through the lens of how it will affect him: his own mortality and how he has planned for retirement, whether or not S. will come out of the coma and be able to interact with him and make the trip somehow "worth it," how the phone conversations with my SiL are stressing him out because she gets upset. It never even occurs to him that there is an entire family in pain that might benefit from him going to New York, or that there is a tiny part of our brother that might perceive him coming to visit, even in the depths of his coma. (Or even that he himself would get something out of seeing S. one more time even if he isn't conscious; I know I did.)
As always with him, I just gotta let it go. Let. It. Go.
WindSparrow - Nov 23, 2010 12:18:18 pm PST #9350 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
{{{{{{{{amyth, SiL, nephew}}}}}}}} lots of ~ma for all of you. And may your middle brother learn better empathy.
Dana - Nov 23, 2010 12:22:48 pm PST #9351 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hugs to you, amyth.
Burrell - Nov 23, 2010 12:25:41 pm PST #9352 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My heart goes out to you and your family, amyth. Your assessment of your brother sounds spot on to me, not that it makes things any easier for you.
Anne W. - Nov 23, 2010 1:02:13 pm PST #9353 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
{{{{amyth}}}}
Calli - Nov 23, 2010 1:17:41 pm PST #9354 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
{{{amyth}}}
Do you have rides and whatnot arranged for the surgery next week? Please let me know if I can help you with anything.
amyth - Nov 23, 2010 2:07:53 pm PST #9355 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Thanks, Calli! I'm not sure what day the surgery is going to be next week, though we're shooting for Thursday. I'll keep you posted, though.
Also, insent.
Pix - Nov 23, 2010 2:13:03 pm PST #9356 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
Much love to you and your family, amyth. I'm so sorry you are going through this.