David, that is heartbreaking.
Note to self: religion freaky.
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
sj - Aug 30, 2023 6:41:36 pm PDT #24784 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
aurelia - Aug 30, 2023 6:42:08 pm PDT #24785 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Oh, David. Oh, Matilda. Nothing about it is fair.
Relieved and heartbroken needs a word of its own, I think.
So much, yes.
DavidS - Aug 30, 2023 6:42:40 pm PDT #24786 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And for you, having to help guide her through it. It's too much.
My MiL had her own little feral freakout filled with fury and repression and crushing implosion.
I told her not to watch, but she came out and did and it wasn't a good thing for her to do. But she couldn't stop herself. Like Matilda she was fairly ready to claw her way through the hearse to get to her beloved.
Cass - Aug 30, 2023 6:44:42 pm PDT #24787 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
When they came to take the body.
Just before I moved to Portland, my grandma passed. Watching my step-mom lose her shit with grief was the hardest thing I've ever been through.
When my Dad was dying, I knew that was something I needed to keep private. I ran outside after he died just to have a few moments for myself.
Unlike Mom years later, we called for transport right after and it was so awful that I hadn't had time to process anything.
Matilda will perservive. People adapt no matter the pain. But I am heartbroken she has to endure this.
sj - Aug 30, 2023 6:45:44 pm PDT #24788 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
David, that’s so much for you to deal with. I’m sorry.
Sean K - Aug 30, 2023 6:45:44 pm PDT #24789 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
David, you, Matilda, and Emmett are very much in my thoughts.
I just told the Guinea Pigs.
This makes me think of the Museum of Jurassic Technology. I don't remember if Jacqueline had been there or not. I'm sure she would have loved it. I know it was one of Jen K's favorite places on earth.
Probably my favorite exhibit is "Telling the Bees" about folk remedies and rituals. The exhibit gets it's name from an entry about how in some places, if you kept bees, you had to inform them of major events in the family like births and deaths, or else the bees would leave.
It seems appropriate to tell the poor piggins.
Atropa - Aug 30, 2023 6:55:34 pm PDT #24790 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh Matilda. Oh kiddo.
… I guess this is when I start crying.
DavidS - Aug 30, 2023 6:57:39 pm PDT #24791 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
....and now my MiL, Sunny, just left in a screaming rage.
The Oakland cousins are coming to pick her up.
Emotional dysregulation in all directions.
smonster - Aug 30, 2023 6:59:48 pm PDT #24792 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I ululated while listening to Welcome to the Black Parade, driving across Lake Pontchartrain, at sunset.
P.M. Marc - Aug 30, 2023 7:10:05 pm PDT #24793 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I know nothing will make it easier on any of you, but I truly wish that weren't the case. I am also sorry that you have to be the one holding your shit together.