*thud*
All the cookie boxes are packed up, all the reindeer food is jarred up, everything is in readiness for gifting tomorrow.
Every year, it looks like I'm not going to get it done in time--and then I do, and while it invariably feels like I'm getting it tied up in a neat little bow in the middle of the night, it isn't even 10 yet, and everything is done.
And tonight, I'm thinking of my friend, meglimir, who is embroiled in a terrific battle even as we sit here...
Her husband, sammyd has asked that you go to his journal and respond to the post that he has up, so that he can let her know that she is thought of, and held in the light.
She is a beautiful, beautiful soul--one who has never failed to support her friends, even when she has had very little strength to do it. She has never failed to present an honest but cheerful face to the world, in spite of her pain and illness. She has never failed to see the good, no matter how dark the time. She has never failed to wring the last drop of life out of every moment she has lived.
I know what her family is feeling tonight. I know how numb and cold it can feel, how brain-bogglingly hurt one can be in the face of this kind of loss.
Please--go over and let Sammy feel the warm, if you can spare a moment.
You have no idea how much it can mean.
Every year, it looks like I'm not going to get it done in time--and then I do, and while it invariably feels like I'm getting it tied up in a neat little bow in the middle of the night, it isn't even 10 yet, and everything is done.
And tonight, I'm thinking of my friend, meglimir, who is embroiled in a terrific battle even as we sit here...
Her husband, sammyd has asked that you go to his journal and respond to the post that he has up, so that he can let her know that she is thought of, and held in the light.
She is a beautiful, beautiful soul--one who has never failed to support her friends, even when she has had very little strength to do it. She has never failed to present an honest but cheerful face to the world, in spite of her pain and illness. She has never failed to see the good, no matter how dark the time. She has never failed to wring the last drop of life out of every moment she has lived.
I know what her family is feeling tonight. I know how numb and cold it can feel, how brain-bogglingly hurt one can be in the face of this kind of loss.
Please--go over and let Sammy feel the warm, if you can spare a moment.
You have no idea how much it can mean.