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Azur
I am sorry for your grief time my friend.
Oh, and thank you for a blog you wrote in Aug/05 about being cautious on the internet, very helpful to me anyway luv
I didn't comment in the blog, thought it a bit late for that.
posted by
WileyJohn
on May 9, 2006 at 9:49 PM
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MerryAnne, thanks. Yes blooging would be more relaxing
posted by
Azur
on May 9, 2006 at 3:36 PM
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Azur,
Sorry, I have been losing a lot lately too. I just wish I had been blogging while you were grieving, but sometimes life isn't that light and simple.
posted by
MerryAnne
on May 9, 2006 at 1:32 PM
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posted by
Spudnuts
on May 9, 2006 at 1:18 PM
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Brettnik, sadly another will come soon
but I don't know what number it will be
posted by
Azur
on May 9, 2006 at 12:59 PM
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You've always got a line I love
this time, it's the one about buses and funerals...so true!
posted by
brettnik
on May 9, 2006 at 12:33 PM
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Whacky, don't worry. I have nothing clever to say either.
posted by
Azur
on May 9, 2006 at 11:30 AM
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Mademoiselle, yes that kind of thing can bring you up short
posted by
Azur
on May 9, 2006 at 11:29 AM
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Uncle Dave, thanks.
posted by
Azur
on May 9, 2006 at 11:28 AM
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Sorry to hear this.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on May 9, 2006 at 1:41 AM
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That's really heartbreaking ...
Meanwhile, in reference to the number of funerals I've attended, only my grandmother's death arrived with any actual warning. The others were completely, soberingly unexpected (heart attack, car accident).
Life is eternal;
And love is immortal;
And death is only a horizon;
And a horizon is nothing
Save the limit of our sight.
~
R. W. Raymond
posted by
Mademoiselle
on May 9, 2006 at 12:49 AM
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I'd say something clever but my brains are gone!
posted by
Whacky
on May 9, 2006 at 12:32 AM
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Thank you for the Garrison Keillor quote too
At the wake today when people started to eat, my mother told me that for a moment she thought, "Hang on, they mustn't start yet, L is not here." Then she remembered he was never going to be here again.
posted by
Azur
on May 9, 2006 at 12:17 AM
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Mademoiselle
That's quite a number of funerals to have attended at your age. I don't think I recall the words so much as the feelings behind them and the tone.
posted by
Azur
on May 9, 2006 at 12:10 AM
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I've attended five funerals in my lifetime ...
(four of which involved significant relations: my father, my grandparents and two close friends). Yet, curiously enough, I don't recall a single sentence from any of the eulogies. I guess it was hard for me to focus.
"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days." ~ Garrison Keillor.
posted by
Mademoiselle
on May 8, 2006 at 11:57 PM
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Excellent bit of
quackery
posted by
Azur
on May 8, 2006 at 10:36 PM
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A year afyer my mother in law died we had a "family gathering".
One family guest passed out tshirts with one of her memorable sayings on it. I still have one, and whenever I am in need of her excperience and the wisdom of her times, I poull it out and read it...
"Not much meat on a duck".
dum vivamus, vivamus.
posted by
majroj
on May 8, 2006 at 10:33 PM
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