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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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Barnes you Might want to move you don’t want to get any of the beatdown he is about to get
I think that’s scrappy, also yes he is definitely in the splash zone.
It’s definitely Scrappy–the tags don’t lie.
my bad yea i should have checked the tag
Damn, our meetings get like this but only pre or post minute taking. One the record douchery is rare. Terrence needs some serious ‘correcting’
You know, I used to think Sarah P was being harsh on him. Now I’m seriously starting to think Terrence is a douchecanoe.
It’s hard to tell. We don’t really know who was agitating and who was the reacting. If Terrence was this bad from meeting #1, then yes he is a douche-canoe. But if he’s only a little bad and socially inept, then more responsibility shifts to Sarah.
Unfortunately by now the pattern is set. People usually respond to douchery with their own counter-douchery.
And escalate.
So even if Terrence wasn’t so bad, being badgered constantly by Sarah could leave him feeling that he has license to be that bad in self-defense. Probably both Sarah and Terrence feel justified in being completely rude to each other.
Another factor in this is leadership failure. Veronica should have put a stop to the bickering months ago. Maybe she’s tried. We don’t see enough meetings to really know. This could be the meeting where the personality conflict really explodes, though again, Veronica should have at least attempted to address the conflict before a blow-up *could* occur. Arguably she’s been a bit preoccupied by the con’s finances. These things happen and nobody’s perfect.
Yeah, except here we see him go after Ruth when there hasn’t been any (shown) problems between them before now. That says he’s just a pain to work with, and fits with his comment from June 29th as just a dude who tends to piss people off.
Plus, the blatant sexism in the last panel just makes him a garbage person.
He’s at least a doucheyacht, if not a doucheaircraftcarrier.
Douche ex machina!