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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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you’d have to sell to every person who walked in the door to turn a profit at that price
I can only assume the guest list includes Stan Lee, Dick Sprang, and Jesus Christ. The convention itself must cater to millionares who are expected to drop a few thousand in the artist alley….
Why is this reminding me of another con, that is NOT a midwest con, that was NOT a first year con, but had some outrageous prices on their artist alley, for their attendance?
And may or may not have put their AA in a damp, moldy garage? (not naming names, of course)
Wasn’t the dealers room AND Artist Alley in that black-mold infested garage?
Either way…I don’t remember the prices specifically. But if memory serves, should be something around the 120 range or something (Still flipping high)
Shesh the artist allies at the con’s down here are the same price and we get 10k plus for most anime con’s!
Even if that includes a membership, that’s hefty indeed.
For what it’s worth, New Englander’s say “wicked” on a constant basis;
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