This made me think of ita ... I think she'd have appreciated it.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
ita's thread
A place where we can talk about ita, miss ita, and share information about memorials. The hugging started over here in Natter.
Toddson, I almost want that for a tatoo.
Well, THIS song just tore me in half.
Debetesse and Maria both know it - it's Frank Turner's Long Live the Queen
Oof. Yeah, I can see that.
Yeah. And most of his last album too. Polaroid Picture anyone?
wow, that hit the mark.
Well damn. It is finally sinking in. I think my heart and brain had not met over this and finally my heart has learned the news.
I just threadsucked a whole bunch because I'd mainlined a show and wondered what we'd said. Yeah, ita said something. There were a lot of threads and places that she and I didn't share, so I think even here I will always sometimes go into the past and find new words from her. Very bittersweet.
On Sunday night, a coworker thanked me for introducing her to the term "chosen family". She lost her brother last summer (he had had a successful heart transplant in his youth), then was out of work due to two surgeries and a heart attack and only came back in January. I had kept my sorrow to myself at work, though I was fairly bursting with it. But coworker does the overnight shifts, and people are in bed when she gets there. So she was the only person I could have a deep, vulnerable conversation with. It started when she mentioned staying in contact with the family of the person whose heart her brother received - how they became like family. She was the only person I felt I could tell about ita. In explaining this place, I used the phrase. In turn, she used it to comfort a dear friend who gets very little support from her blood relatives and was feeling alone in the world.
That's wonderful, Windi.