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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.
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here we go
I can guess that Tracy would very much like to see that, probably with Sarah in some degree of undress
She was a cheerleader!?!?!?
Hard to believe, that some of these nerdy ladies actually took part in extra curricular activities that the popular girls in high school are more likely to take part in. Surprisingly, there are a lot people like that in the con community. I was on the football and wrestling team in my high school. Football my senior year and wrestling during my junior and senior year.
That was absolutely intentional on Sarah’s part.
I’m honestly not sure it was. I mean, I’m sure she’s fine with the result, but i don’t get the impression she’d go for that sort of indirect.
She’s very experienced with flirting, mostly with straight guys. Cheerleader-into-flexibility is a very good move with that crowd.
I mean, it could be accidental, I just think Sarah’s smart enough to do it on purpose
okay, maybe I need more coffee, in the last panel is Tracy raising her hand or is that a random person in the background?
That’s another character in the background
And Tracey goes “SCHWINNGGG!”