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.
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…Wouldn’t it be simpler to make your own cons run the way you want? Terrence can start with Unagi con, which would have to be friendly to the Cause, right?
Everybody’s happy then or at least working on their own stuff and not trying to tear each other down.
Which given human nature is probably too much to expect…
I just find all this amusingly current given how Midwest FurFest just told Milo Yiannopoulos “Don’t come, we don’t want you here.”
is THAT why the proud boy tw@ts are planning to attend?
Would not be surprised. The story as I know it is that Milo publicly announced that he had bought a ticket and invited others to come as well, talking about hosting a right wing panel, etc. People caught wind, complained to FurFest. FurFest decided to rescind Milo’s registration. Milo has made some noise about taking action, and that’s all I know.
What strikes me as sort of sad (beyond the stupidity of the agenda in the first place that is) is that with just about any most groups, that last panel would be insanely overblown parody rhetoric, to the point that Dr. Evil would be hassling Trae about writing scenery chewing characters. In this case, it sounds about right.
hello restraining order extension