The Grief of a Brother

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Eight Years

Not today; two days ago. Eight years ago on the 27th, Mum died. The fact that I forgot it until late yesterday threw me for a bit of a loop, with a tiny part of me suggesting that this somehow made me a bad daughter. I'm not, and that tiny part of me got swatted pretty hard in my head, retreating to some corner of my consciousness that ( Read more... )

Goodbye, Rob

My step-dad, Rob Stirling, died in hospital just now; my brother called me on the way to the hospital to let me know. He was, I think, 95 (I keep forgetting his age, which is ... strange.)

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Limbaugh Leaves

Rush Limbaugh has died of lung cancer at the age of 70.

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Mountains and Echoes

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Rest in Peace Ruth Bader Ginsburg

God DAMN. 
GOD DAMN

And also ...

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What Can We Make Holy?

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Little Richard, St. Richard of the Fierce Eyes

NOTE: This was posted two days ago on Dreamwidth, which is not crossposting for me. With any luck, that will change, but until then, I'll manually crosspost.

Little Richard, the Rev. Richard Penniman, has, as some say, passed on to glory.

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Farewell, Opie

( A remembrance )

Time Is Too Much With Us

I just found myself in tears as I listened to an album, one I first listened to in 1975, in Charlottetown, PEI, as a freshly minted reporter at the fine old age of 19-going-on-20. I listened to it with Janet Sears, one of my newsroom colleagues, and one of my closest friends at the time. She was a sweet-faced, wryly funny ( Read more... )