Oh, Nilly. So much sense.
I am too much not wanting to be crying at my desk to say more right now, but I want to say that much.
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
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.
-t - May 12, 2015 6:47:20 am PDT #1780 of 3157
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
SailAweigh - May 12, 2015 7:00:22 am PDT #1781 of 3157
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Nilly, your posts always amaze me; so cogent and compassionate and lyrical--I feel everything along with you and it makes everything feel so much more real. Thank you for being so eloquent for me, and possibly many others here.
Wolfram - May 12, 2015 7:07:29 am PDT #1782 of 3157
Visilurking
Wolfram, it's so good to see you posting here, even if it is under these circumstances (I tried to e-mail you in January - I have no idea if you got my e-mail, I sent it to an old e-mail address of you that I had). I hope all is well with you and yours.
Nilly, I did get it. I emailed you back, but it was during Passover so you may have missed it. Thank you for reaching out. Lots has changed in my life and oddly it seems like some of our life events match up. (I lost my father a few years ago. We have some more children - also a four year old boy and a two year old girl!)
I have no idea if any of what I wrote makes any sense, but I'm afraid not posting it now may end up in it all being gone, and even if it is an entangled mess of large paragraphs vented all at once on the screen, I can't think of anywhere else I can put it.
Everything you wrote is so meaningful and heartbreaking and lovely. Thank you for sharing with us.
Amy - May 12, 2015 9:34:00 am PDT #1783 of 3157
Because books.
What Wolfram said, Nilly. It's always so, so good to see you here, and I love knowing that you're *there*, too, reading and catching up when you can.
::hugs Nilly again::
quester - May 12, 2015 10:42:24 am PDT #1784 of 3157
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
nothing to add but - I love you, Nilly! always a beautiful thing to see your words.
erikaj - May 12, 2015 1:39:22 pm PDT #1785 of 3157
Always Anti-fascist!
I think of her every time "Every Kiss Begins With Kay" airs in commercials cause one Valentine's she said "So does Kiss My ass" Nilly, sometimes it still seems like she's in Jamaica and not posting. But she would have said something about Obama and patois so sometimes I remember all over again.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 12, 2015 2:46:43 pm PDT #1786 of 3157
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Seeing Johann Urb proposing to Julia Louis Dreyfuss in those Old Navy commercials always makes me think about ita cheerleading on his behalf. Though I suspect she'd be telling commercial Johann that he'd just dodged a bullet.
amych - May 12, 2015 3:31:43 pm PDT #1787 of 3157
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Nilly, my darling dear, I love you more every time you turn up and post something beautiful and thoughtful and full of your ineffable Nillyness!
Lee - May 12, 2015 6:04:45 pm PDT #1788 of 3157
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It's always so, so good to see you here, and I love knowing that you're *there*, too, reading and catching up when you can.
lly, my darling dear, I love you more every time you turn up and post something beautiful and thoughtful and full of your ineffable Nillyness!
Yes, to both, and everything else everyone said. It is always so wonderful to see your words, even when they are on a painful subject.
Beverly - May 13, 2015 11:57:36 am PDT #1789 of 3157
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.