Oh David, I'm so sorry.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
Jesse - Sep 19, 2023 5:56:04 pm PDT #25520 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DavidS - Sep 19, 2023 6:30:37 pm PDT #25521 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but I am glad you did get to see her.
Me too. I wasn't ready for that trip, really. But it was necessary.
I was thinking of Jacqueline's horrible odyssey to see her father before he died, when she was just out of COVID quarantine herself.
How hard it was (all of the public transportation was extremely limited) to even get there (a 40 minute trip took three hours), but how it gave him a moment of grace to pass.
Sometimes just showing up is so important for your whole family.
Kills me a little to know it's the one year anniversary of her getting her desk. She didn't even get a year of it to write. She wanted so much more.
lisah - Sep 19, 2023 6:38:45 pm PDT #25522 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I’m so sorry, David
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2023 7:03:33 pm PDT #25523 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
David, that is too fucking much. I'm so sorry.
Amy - Sep 19, 2023 7:15:51 pm PDT #25524 of 30000
Because books.
That's no fair, David. Fucking universe. I'm glad you got to see your sister, though. I'm so sorry.
erin_obscure - Sep 19, 2023 8:55:44 pm PDT #25525 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
{{{{{David}}}}}
Susan W. - Sep 19, 2023 9:14:39 pm PDT #25526 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh David. I am so sorry.
DavidS - Sep 19, 2023 9:39:24 pm PDT #25527 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I’m sorry you have to deal with another loss so soon.
20 days.
Shir - Sep 19, 2023 9:50:04 pm PDT #25528 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I am sorry, David. My condolences.
I wish there was a way to bubble wrap you and yours from any death or illness or terrible things happening for a while. A decade. Five years. A year. This is all too much.
Instead of that bubble wrap, I'm sending my love. You are in my thoughts. May you get a fucking break. I am so sorry.
Nilly - Sep 19, 2023 10:19:33 pm PDT #25529 of 30000
Swouncing
Oh, David, I'm so sorry for your loss.
And I'm sorry for the oh-so-difficult day you've had, taking more difficult steps in that oh-so-difficult road, and for Matilda having to fo through it (even if it's alongside you, so at least she gets your support). I'm just so sorry.
I wish I had more words to add, good words.
Well, no, I wish for other things, impossible things, but I know they are impossible, and I have to pretend that I'm an adult, so I won't write out loud the fairy-tales wishes that I know can't come true.
And I can't even wish for you to feel better, not now, not while you're still going through all of it, because all you've been through, especially during the last few weeks, but actually for almost ten months now, is just the kind of things that make you feel the opposite of "better".
But this post is not about me and what I'm confused about wishing, so I'll stop now. Take care.
(This goes to all of you - I've been trying to play catch-up, and I'm still in the "been trying" phase of it, but my not-posting is not not-being-here. This lurker supports you in, well, not even e-mail, or anything that happens outside of her own head, but still.)