The last time I saw ita, I had the twins with me. I felt terrible inflicting them on her because of the rambunctiousness.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Kat - Jan 16, 2015 7:25:05 pm PST #793 of 3156
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Frankenbuddha - Jan 16, 2015 7:32:45 pm PST #794 of 3156
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
smonster - Jan 16, 2015 7:40:42 pm PST #795 of 3156
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I did a search for pink gingham dresses, just because, and found this one - [link] I don't know if ita would have loved it, but I can certainly picture her in it.
meara - Jan 16, 2015 8:53:35 pm PST #796 of 3156
I was all excited for a second, Bon bon, and then realized I'll be in LA next Monday, not this one. Oh well.
Shir - Jan 16, 2015 11:58:10 pm PST #797 of 3156
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Callaluna - I am so sorry. Had no idea this is this bad (I am trying to avoid news here as much as possible, other than hearing the 7:30am radio news brief and whatever comes in Twitter. It's like poison to my nerves).
If Belgium is scary, the whole world is unsafe.
I can't remember if I read it here or somewhere else - maybe in the weekend's newspaper, so apologies if I'm repeating anyone. There was this article about the awful things that happened in France that ended with "when other people's most catastrophic and violent fantasies are coming true, there is no choice but pulling [one's own] other fantasies in front of them". And I feel that this is very true. Especially with ita.
Trudy Booth - Jan 17, 2015 6:58:36 am PST #798 of 3156
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
I think inflicting a headache on one of her friends would be about the last way ita would want to mark her passing. Now, if your TV turned itself off as a Halle Berry movie came on Saturday night, I might not be so quick to dismiss it as coincidence.
I was seeing it more as a serious disruption in the Force than ita smacking a friend upside the head.
Her call? Clearly the Halle Berry thing.
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2015 7:03:00 am PST #799 of 3156
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I was seeing it more as a serious disruption in the Force than ita smacking a friend upside the head.
That's what I thought, too. All that pain had to go somewhere.
WindSparrow - Jan 17, 2015 8:41:10 am PST #800 of 3156
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.
I probably spent more time thinking about this than you really intended. I believe it was not a conscious act of ita's spirit but rather a matter of empathy. For whatever reason, your brain and spirit were receptive to the brief connection and you felt with her. The idea gives a joy (not a happiness, mind) similar to what I had when I read that ita had her laptop open, reading email ... she was not truly alone. However that no one was physically at her side, ita was not alone in spirit.
meara - Jan 17, 2015 8:49:14 am PST #801 of 3156
Allyson, do you want to just take a look at the photos people have been posting on FB, and see if there's any you (or someone else, or her family) likes, and either take from there, or ask whoever posted them for?
I am not a writer, and can't help with the statement, but I'm guessing someone here who's good at that could take some of the stuff people have written in this thread, and some of ita's words that have been quoted here, and make something pretty damn awesome. Though not as awesome as ita.
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2015 8:52:33 am PST #802 of 3156
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I believe it was not a conscious act of ita's spirit
I don't, either. If anything, I think it was that all that pain had to go somewhere.
For whatever reason, your brain and spirit were receptive to the brief connection and you felt with her.
If I explain the dream I had Tuesday morning right before I woke up to the news of ita's death, you all really WILL think I'm crazy, because it requires an understanding of the connections my brain makes with things. But suffice it to say that I think my subconscious felt everyone's pain Tuesday morning while I slept. Really. (It's happened before, and it makes ME feel crazy.)