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I didn't want to post till I could do it without crying. Something shifted in my brain last night and I'm like... I'm not okay. I am so very not okay. But I've managed to put most of it over to one side where it's not going to keep making me cry. At least today ( Read more... )

"No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to ( Read more... )

Hug your pets today, people. Give them liver, ball games, feather wands, cheese - whatever thing they love best. Love them.

( Cut because posts about dreams are better cut )

when you say to someone, "I feel your pain", I suspect most of us don't always mean it that literally. Empathy and imagination and compassion are marvellous things ( Read more... )

I knew three people whose birthday was today; my mother's two sisters, Marian Junior (Auntie Juni) and Susan Jennifer (Auntie Sue). They were twins, and (I think) two years younger than my mother, so they would have been sixty-two today. Auntie Juni was fortyish when she died, Auntie Sue was (I think) fifty.

the third was my best friend Mike ( Read more... )

Am haunted and melancholy at the news that a friend has lost her mother. Her pain is a raw, palpable thing across the Internet and I am, once again, utterly powerless to make any of it go away. All I can do is send love ( Read more... )

Well, I tried with the IM. I couldn't keep it up for very long but it needed to be done. Love you santaman.

( Cut for a lot of rather pointless rambling that I felt an obscure need to get off my chest )