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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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Well done. This will worry him more than just about any other possible course of action. Misdirection isn’t just for stage magic.
Kill em with kindness. Or I could throw in the thing in the Bible and what Jesus said about turning other cheek. Either way, this is a very interesting way to handle things. It’s funny how some of the more pacifist methods tend to work. Although Jim is probably going to keep that grudge.
Bork con really needs to update their webpage… or is the comic moving slow enough that it really is only 2014?
It’s got to be killing him that Lynn isn’t pitching a fit, getting upset, etc etc. He wants a confrontation and he’s not getting it. Lynn acting like absolutely nothing happened. Sweet
I almost wonder if Lynn responding like was preciously Jim’s intent somewhere, as if he’s trying to prove his claims of her being dangerous. Honestly though, I don’t think he’s dumb enough to aim exactly for that since it means he would be purposely trying to provoke violence. Jim’s an douchebag, but I don’t think (and I could be wrong) that he’d stoop as low as someone getting injured on purpose.
Non-physical hostile reactions and insults though, yeah, he was definitely hoping for that.
Random question. Why do the cons keep putting Bork Con and Unagi Con next to each other at the Ambassador Alley?
Because it’s conducive to funny comic strips!
In-universe? Maybe lack of space? That sounds plausible…
Yea I figure it sets up for the joke, but I’m just wondering how that keep happens in the said universe. This just might be a coincidence this time, if this happens a third time, then something is clearly fishy.
Might be some con specific organization method that only the cons themselves are privy to. That or they’re just putting the ambassador tables all in one area and there aren’t that many to the point it just keeps happening by coincidence.
According to the staff mailing list that they still haven’t removed me from, They weren’t a problem in the past and they already told Whatsitcon that they couldn’t be moved without messing up the program book so nobody else could be moved without looking really bad.
Bugs bunny that stoping ass be super nice to him it will drive him NUTS