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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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Honestly I think a lot of cons want to do this…..But, but how will they take pre-reg, how will they take sign ups of any kind?
If they only do at-door, then they’ll make more money!
A friend of mine who also works in trucking told me this!
Google questionnaire.
Eventbrite and the like. It’s still a terrible idea.
You know, if they want to cut Lynn out of the equation then let them, Lynn don’t need to be part of their staff and she can watch them implode from the inside
I agree.
I mean, given how this con has been run so far this isn’t unusual, but shouldn’t cutting an entire department be discussed over more than one meeting? Especially if the head of the department isn’t even around to be consulted about it? Doing something this big this fast seems like an invitation to disaster.
That sounds like a great meeting to miss. One annoying drain on life energy cut loose in one swell foop.
I loved the rollover text!
ABORT ABORT ABORT ABORT