Best thoughts for your dad, Sail!
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2016 2:19:03 pm PST #1949 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
WindSparrow - Nov 12, 2016 2:26:07 pm PST #1950 of 30002
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.
Love for all your family, Sail, and ~ma for your dad.
SailAweigh - Nov 12, 2016 2:45:58 pm PST #1951 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Thanks, everyone. He's 93 years old, he's winding down like a clock who's spring has lost all it's tension and the gears are worn smooth. I don't know that anything going on right now is life-threatening, just, he's fading away, things don't work quite right anymore and there isn't really a fix for any of it. I think everything at this point will just be palliative. Or, he could stick around a couple more years being the crotchety old coot he is. But it would have to be in a nursing home, because it's just becoming too much for my brother to deal with.
Calli - Nov 12, 2016 2:53:49 pm PST #1952 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Dad~ma, SailAweigh!
Thanks, shrift.
Susan W. - Nov 12, 2016 2:53:56 pm PST #1953 of 30002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Dad~ma, Sail!
smonster - Nov 12, 2016 2:55:24 pm PST #1954 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Lots of ~ma, Sail.
sarameg - Nov 12, 2016 3:20:58 pm PST #1955 of 30002
My neighbor doesn't have a dog. But he's not been home all day and there has been a dog barking and whining and howling in his basement since at least 1. Quiets down when I shout reassuring things through the wall. I'm guessing a visitors dog, but I do not approve. I feel bad for the dog.
Strix - Nov 12, 2016 3:39:00 pm PST #1956 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Health-ma, Sail.
Spidra Webster - Nov 12, 2016 3:46:15 pm PST #1957 of 30002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Much dad~ma, SailAweigh.
I went for a walk at the local botanical gardens this morning.
I volunteer at the local botanical garden and have been so busy with school that I have not been taking advantage and going there outside my (indoors) shift. Today I made myself stay a little extra to be there for sunset. I need to do more of that.
When parking there earlier in the day, intending to study, I saw a small lizard with a bee in its mouth. I stopped and watched. It stayed still, then the bee moved a bit, then the lizard moved a bit, etc. The lizard started using its tail as a lever to hoist its nether regions up and I realized it was eliminating. Not sure whether that was out of fear or a sort of "victory dance". I took about 2 min video of this but eventually needed to get out of the car to start studying. It skittered away as soon as it heard the door latch.
^^^^I write this just as a reminder to myself that I need to take moments like this no matter how under the gun I'm feeling now. I need to watch nature, even urban nature, in an attempt to *be present* in a moment that isn't about humans but the beauty and wonder of the planet as a whole.
Thanks for the exercise reminder, Consuela, it's a good one.
Connie Neil - Nov 12, 2016 3:50:28 pm PST #1958 of 30002
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I'm watching a documentary on Liberty of London. I want everything in that store--they have a knitting department! And fabric! If I was rich I would be all over that place.