Tep, I'm so sorry for your loss. Lots of love to you and your family.
Buffy. When I saw you stop the world from, you know, ending, I just assumed that was a big week for you. Turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of 'apocalypse.'
Riley ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?
Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
amyth - Oct 15, 2019 10:56:04 am PDT #6400 of 8213
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Steph L. - Oct 15, 2019 5:34:59 pm PDT #6401 of 8213
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The funeral was so rough. My uncle is kind of physically frail, and every time during Mass we had to stand, he was swaying big time (although that was partly because he was full of Valium; he wouldn't have survived the services without it). He had a really rough moment at the cemetery when it was time to leave. I mean, they were married for 55 years. That's a lot to grieve.
I am so, so goddamn tired.
DavidS - Oct 15, 2019 5:58:11 pm PDT #6402 of 8213
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I am so, so goddamn tired.
Grief is so physically exhausting.
Hil R. - Oct 15, 2019 7:33:22 pm PDT #6403 of 8213
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, the community sounds amazing. I've never heard of a community that offers snacks and water during Yom Kippur (but I live in Jerusalem, so that doesn't say much). That's very thoughtful.
The snacks and water were upstairs, so not so helpful for me, but they're really working on finding a more accessible location to have services. I ended up leaving during the afternoon break -- I was thinking about eating something at home and then going back for the evening services, but I needed some rest instead. They've got a bunch of things scheduled for Sukkot this week, and nearly all of them are at times when I can't go.
I remember, when I was a kid, our synagogue would build a Sukkah in the parking lot, and all the Jewish kids would go there for lunch each day. As far as I can remember, lunch was always tuna sandwiches. (I'm sure they must have served something else. They couldn't have actually given us tuna sandwiches every day for a week? But that's all that I can remember. Tuna sandwiches and cookies.)
P.M. Marc - Oct 15, 2019 10:11:56 pm PDT #6404 of 8213
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Grief is so physically exhausting.
A-yup.
Can confirm.
Laura - Oct 16, 2019 4:19:10 am PDT #6405 of 8213
Our wings are not tired.
Grief is so physically exhausting.
So true. Sending comforting vibes to your uncle. My step-dad has aged decades since my mom died. It is so hard. Losing your mate is like an amputation.
P.M. Marc - Oct 16, 2019 7:47:16 am PDT #6406 of 8213
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My MiL's ability to cope with ANYTHING (already not her strength) has gone to hell since my FiL died in February. They'd been together since she was 14.
Toddson - Oct 16, 2019 12:36:30 pm PDT #6407 of 8213
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Hil, my bus goes by a temple and the other morning I noticed some cloth on a frame out in front. I was confused for a moment and then I noticed the branches over the top and realized what it was.
billytea - Oct 16, 2019 1:17:02 pm PDT #6408 of 8213
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Grief is so physically exhausting.
I truly is. I'm sorry, Steph. Comfort to your family.
Hil R. - Oct 16, 2019 2:55:27 pm PDT #6409 of 8213
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'd thought I wouldn't get to visit a sukkah this year, because between my schedule this week, and a bunch of sukkahs in inaccessible places, it just wouldn't work out, but Chabad set up a mini sukkah on campus, near my office, so I went to that one, which was nice.