Series 8, week 25, lj entry. "Closer"

[jacq22]

Closer. “The Sea of Grass

Comments

[jem0000000]

This was lovely; I am glad her daughter and grandchild are going to live with her so she won't be as lonely. :)

[jacq22]

Thanks, glad you thought they would help her quell the loneliness. My hope was that too.

[jem0000000]

You're welcome. :)

[halfshellvenus]

Oops-- I needed your warning up at the top, because I read yours first!

I love this look into the future, and how vividly Viola longs for Frank and all of the snappy, atypical forms their interactions took.

She sighed, almost a sob, remembering his lips on her throat. She closed her eyes. Her fingers traced the warm flesh, touched her lips. Her eyes opened and she again saw the room as it was, just empty.
I loved this detail, because it shows that their physical as well as emotional love was very strong clear up to the end. How could she NOT miss his touch? Yet people so often believe that physical need dies with age. Nice to see the opposite stressed so strongly here.

[jacq22]

Physical need is still part of life. Have known couples in their 90's still loving and close. Thank you for the way you always see things, it is a real boost.

Needed something today! as I had to have a cat put to sleep,-- only a stray, but have cared for and loved him since he strolled into our lives, so was very sad. Loving and knowing love is still the most important lesson we learn.

[mstrobel]

Aw man, now I want to cry! I loved your intersection, the two go so well together.

[jacq22]

Thank you for the kind remarks.

[alycewilson]

It's interesting how, in loss, she only remembers the good.

[jacq22]

I observed the strangest thing when I worked with the elderly, (mostly widows) the ones who had been the most critical and waspish to their men, were the widows who took it harder. Don't know if it was guilt? am sure they loved their husbands really. One delightfully brittle lady of 92, still talked of her husband and she had been a widow for 45 years. Perhaps its a trick of the mind only remembering the good?

[alycewilson]

Could be. Or maybe just that they can appreciate it all, now that they don't have the daily annoyances.

[jacq22]

True! LOL! am ready to kill mine right now.