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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Why do I get the feeling we’re going to see some other familiar faces soon?
Bit of a spelling error in the middle panel. “We won’t BR able to to run the event.
Longshot, but I hope Garner jumps ship. I miss Garner.
He started off as a real twat-waffle, but joining forces with Lynn against Nazis and backing her up in the aftermath rather endeared me to him. Goes to show that even seemingly jerk-off people can have good qualities.
Maybe it’s cold?
Hey now, the metabolically challenged can be great workers and can follow orders very well… admittedly the zombies can get a bit bitey, but just think of it as aggressive recruiting for next year…
….my point being don’t exclude someone just because they lack a pulse.
Who knew Reg Shoe weighed in on internet comics?
For a couple years we had panel meetings of ‘PETU’… People for the Ethical Treatment of Undead. So conventions and zombie rights are tied together in my brain.
Ethical treatment of the Undead. That’s like … stitches and bandages, not Cure Light Wounds? 😛
Setting the bar high, there.
typo: we wont BR able to run the event