Saw this picture of a car in a parking garage and I thought that it looked lonely...which I guess is a pretty stupid thing to say, huh? I mean, inanimate objects don't get lonely. It's just people that get lonely ( Read more... )

Is it a bad thing to forward somebody's e-mail to someone else without letting them know first ( Read more... )

In the Tibetan book of living and dying, it says ( Read more... )

At the funeral, people talked right through the service, even when my 17-year-old cousin was standing up there beside gran's coffin, delivering the eulogy (the one I wrote, not the one that was re-written without my knowledge). People kept talking even though he was standing up there, struggling to compose himself as he tried not to cry ( Read more... )

The Gibb brothers once sang:

It's only words
And words are all I have

My words were all I had to give --- it was that one last thing I could do for my grandmother ( Read more... )

Sometimes, you'll find that one right song that neatly says everything you're feeling.

The Devlin's "Waiting" kind of sums up today --- especially the line: Waiting in slow motion.I guess this sounds bad, but it sort of feels like I'm the one who's dead. I'm just sitting around, staring into space, waiting for next Friday to come. That's when the ( Read more... )

Had to write the eulogy for my grandmother today ( Read more... )

Gran passed away earlier this evening.

We were actually going to visit her on Christmas. She wasn't well enough to leave the nursing home.

I knew as soon as the phone rang.

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There was a major snow storm late this afternoon --- it's still brewing as I write this. And I haven't been feeling all that great, either. Not like sick sick, but feeling weird --- sort of like I'm outside of myself, if that makes any sort of sense. No? Yeah, I guess not ( Read more... )