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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“Garbage Person?” She’s improving. It used to be “Garbage Monster.”
Then again, maybe the Grouch Anti-Defamation League complained.
Scrappy’s paraphrasing.
She’s used a wide variety and spectrum of garbage based insults most likely.
For reference, their first meeting.
http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2016/12/the-switch/
The next strip he talked about her like she wasn’t there, and based on how casually he threw out the “like us” comment to Scrappy, I figure he’s probably made other borderline bigoted comments he thought he could get away with. Sarah’s not being unreasonable here.
That’s a fair argument. When it comes to webcomics that jump between the perspective of different characters I tend to err on the side of caution and only consider what is directly presented or explicitly implied. We haven’t seen much of Terrence’s negative behavior outside those occasions, so I was willing to at least try giving him the benefit of the doubt…
I’ve met people who come off as a total tool upon first impressions, but later found out they’re just woefully bad at interacting with people and social situations in general. I knew a girl in high school who came off as a snobby brat who bragged about everything, when it turned out she didn’t really have friends her age and spent most of her time with her rather well-off folks and their equally well-off friends. She literally just had no clue that talking about the stuff she got to do during the summer (Disney World trip, the occasional cruise) would be seen as bragging to people less well off.
That said…Terrance does seem to get more flaky as things go on (this said after seeing the following page).