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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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YES! YES!
Sometimes you just gotta be blunt.
Also, Lynn is wearing pants again. I’m still wierded out by this.
She’s not wearing pants — it’s her standard skirt/boots. It gets kind of lost with the angle, but you can see her stick-knees if you look closely.
It’s one of the magical side effects of Boots of Whoosh!
This is an interesting way to end this event even though there is one more day left.
I don’t know why, but for the last two days of the strip I’ve been hearing Lynn’s voice as Raven from Teen Titans Go. It’s got that whole “you humans are crazy” vibe….
That’s not too far off from how she’s always sounded in my head.
Maybe a little lower.
Like somewhere between there and Aubrey Plaza
Hovertext that isn’t the strip title! Hooray!
too hard for disney to keep the triad they spent a season of girls meets world setting up going bast 4 episodes in the following season
Grin – go Lynn! Been there done that sorta, no t-shirt though.