sophistry | (no subject)

I'm off to pay my respects at a funeral in a few minutes - Jim, our neighbour, who's been a good friend to the family ever since we moved in. Which was before I was born; more than twenty years ago. Jim, I wasn't terribly close to, personally; he hadn't been out much the past few years. His health has been on the wane, and he's been in and out of hospitals for his hip and associated things. The reason I don't want to go is his wife. She's always been so good to us, and she cried when I went in to show her my Debs dress. I'm afraid of seeing her frail.

I don't want my grandmother to come either, so I have to see them standing beside each other and think: Jim's dead.

Everything's changing, recently.

Time is a face on the water.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

My sympathies. For everything.

I suspect it won't help you now, but in another 20 or 30 years, you'll grow used to the ripples crossing the water, and start to realise that under it all, it's still all water ....

Peace be upon you.

I was about your age when this started to hit home for me.

I send you lots of thoughts and love on this sad day.