So sorry to hear about your Dad. I know what it's like, going through some similar stuff with mine. I'm sorry that I wasn't aware or in touch with you through that. I hope that 2012 is a joyful year for you.
Thankyou -I didn't really mention it anywhere outside my family and their friends at the time; I think I'm only really starting to process it all now. So many of my friends seem to have had a difficult year... may peace and perspective come to us all!
We don't' know each other at all, yet somehow end up on reciprocated friends' lists. Our deepest sympathies to you and your family during this terrible time. The great and loveliest moments are your descriptions of your father's long service to the firemen and that he is holding his granddaughter.
These are terrible times and I won't even say that they pass in time, because that doesn't help when you have the dark hole now and one that will never really be filled. I am very glad that your family had such an enormous and supportive community and that your mother is getting some grief counseling. May you all be comforted and best wishes here for a better new year.
I don't know you in person, but I'm a fan of your writing, and friended your journal to see the lovely snippets of research and backstory you post. Please don't feel any obligation to subscribe to my occasional meanderings in return unless you want to!
I have not reviewed your work remotely as much as I should have, but every chapter you have posted has been a bright spot in my year, and I have enjoyed them all tremendously. Thank you so much both for your sympathy and for sharing your stories with the world.
The glory of fan fic is it's ability to help create community where none existed before and so it is here. Thank you for your kind words and I am glad you found such comfort as was there. After a particularly bad year, after 9/11 and a spiral of death among my family and friends, I found burning the calendar of that year very cathartic. 2001 was "the year we burned the calendars on the bar-b-ques." And this is indeed an interesting thing to contemplate given your father's lifetime stint as a firefighter. You can imagine him over your shoulder making certain you take adequate precautions.
Hello MsHeart, I didn't really have much of an idea of the year you had either, and I'm sad to hear of your trials. Death is surreal, sometimes, and we move through the process of grief without really knowing what's happening and where we're going, even when we're in the middle of it and feeling everything so keenly. But time really does make it better, or different, rather, and some day you'll be in the middle of doing something and realise life is getting back on a more even keel. Here's to that day.
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These are terrible times and I won't even say that they pass in time, because that doesn't help when you have the dark hole now and one that will never really be filled. I am very glad that your family had such an enormous and supportive community and that your mother is getting some grief counseling. May you all be comforted and best wishes here for a better new year.
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I have not reviewed your work remotely as much as I should have, but every chapter you have posted has been a bright spot in my year, and I have enjoyed them all tremendously. Thank you so much both for your sympathy and for sharing your stories with the world.
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See you round.
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