Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
My grandmother died last night. This wasn't a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she's been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was surrounded by her three adult children.
My grandma was a kind woman. She wasn't perfect, but I always felt loved in her presence. She was a retired kindergarten teacher, and was still working when I was a kid. I have so many happy memories sitting at her kitchen table, and I'm going to carry those with me for the rest of my life. She was also proof that anyone who claims that you get more conservative as you get older is full of shit, because she certainly didn't.
I think it's interesting how the body processes grief sometimes. I don't know that I'll cry, but over the past month, knowing this was coming, I've felt a tension in my gut. Now that she's passed, instead of relief that tension is replaced by a sense of emptiness. That something is missing that should still be there. Something has been taken away, and I feel it.
Of course, as I wrote that, I immediately started crying... so I guess my body processes grief in pretty ordinary ways too.
I wanted to come up with something profound linking this to Beltane, which we sit in the middle of right now, but it just seemed hackneyed. Like I was trying to dig out some greater significance when the truth is death comes whenever it wants. The only predictable thing about it is that it's the end of all of our journeys. I hope that when I pass I'm so lucky to have lived such a long life with people that I love around me in my final days.
For the record, I will be fine. I just needed to get these words out while they were still in my head. I don't have some rousing conclusion or deep insight to tack on here at the end, just that gut feeling that something is missing.
Because it is.
![Nerd & Tie[dot]Social Forums](https://www.nerdandtie.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/natsocial-nicepreview-square-300x300.png)
I applaud you Garner. Even assholes can do the right thing sometimes. Most people are rarely ever wholly bad or wholly good.
I dunno about Terrance though… He just keeps getting worse.
Ya gotta remember, even jackasses have others that they rightfully regard as jackasses. Hardly anyone is a complete prong about everything. Well, ‘cept Terrance thusfar…
That’s pretty much what I meant, really.
Why did this conversation wait for Garner to have? Con staffers should have made this point to Terrence long before now.
I got the impression that Lynn and Ruth were the first con staffers to notice the uniform and Lynn was specifically told not to do anything. Garner was the third to notice and here we are now.
Sometimes I feel like people need a lecture on civics class 101: Freedom of Speech does not mean freedom to say whatever you want where ever you want. It means the government can’t limit it.
Lol cons can do whatever the fuck they want if you say or do shit like this.
Even from the government, you are free to say whatever, but you are not free from the results of doing so. And yeah, Cons get to make their own rules. To a point, of course.
AHH poppers paradox if your culture is too tolerant the intolerant will exploit it