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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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Hmm, I wonder what *this* could be in response to… [/sarcasm]
Is Sacha a real VO or one you made up when I search the first page is mostly links back to here
She’s fictional. No way I’d do a story like this with any real VAs.
I bet Troy Harrington is going to be involved in this.
Last year of the comic? And it’s 2nd April… Awww.. :/ Well, thanks for making it for so long, and I hope there will be some other comics from your pen with random relatable life events in the future! This one had been my weekly go-to mood lifter for ages. 🙂
Yeah, I announced it a couple of times, but I’ve been planning the end (and building towards it) for a couple of years. On the upside, the final comic isn’t until December?
the irony of losing track of this comic until 2021 and going back to finish it. you chose a good year to end it XD