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...and suddenly the strongest person I have ever known is gone... I pray she is in the arms of the son and daughter she lost far too early, and that they are all in a far better place...
I'm glad I got the chance to say "I Love You" one last time

Goodbye, Grandma...

Annis Elizabeth (Betty) Houghton Prast Eaton
1927-2012

7 minutes to eleven...i am officially 43 now...and feeling very introspective...

as my 43rd becomes more imminent by the hour, so a certain sense of melancholy grows... the days' plan to just stay home and get chores done early and then ensconce myself on the couch with a sketchbook were derailed early on by my own sense of duty to a friend in need, and the tenuous link to my muse was broken for the second time in under 24 ( Read more... )

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when does enough become too much, and when do love and care become selfish cruelty? these are fine lines that i'm having a hard time seeing right now...

my thoughts right now are too personal for FB... McCloud, my usually fat, always amiable grey cat has been very ill for about a week now... i took him to the vet yesterday, and a full blood panel was ordered for him, with results due in today... the vet was not very hopefull when i first took him in, and was even less hopeful when i called back ( Read more... )

...how do you exorcise the ghost of someone who still lives?
how do you staunch a wound that hurts and bleeds as if it were new made, though it is years old?
and how do you fill a seemingly bottomless hole in your heart?

(and if all you're going to say is "Get over it" don't bother...)