Necklaces, Cats, and Cookies.

[naamah_darling]

I would rather be a cat.

The Mocus is in my lap right now, with drops of water clinging to her head because she's been drinking out of the leaky bathtub faucet again. She has contributed nothing today beyond getting into the garbage, being a savage bitch to her sister, and yowling obnoxiously in the other room, but I am petting her anyway

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Wow

[lostin_thestars]

I have seldom commented in your journal, just read with admirance your prose, and laughed at the humor that echoes mine. This post sums up so much of what I too have been feeling lately. Your thoughts of Sargon are the same thoughts I have about my husband, and my worries are doubly now what they were 2 weeks ago. See, 2 weeks ago I became, dare I say it a mom. I became a mom a month before I was supposed to. My thoughts constantly are on my daughter and my husband and I worry about losing them both, especially since my daughter is still too small to leave the NICU. I know I dont know you, and that it may not mean much coming from a stranger, but if there is anything I can do. Let me know. I understand the pain of watching someone you love be sick, and watching them slowly deteriorate. But all the memories are happy ones as you said, even to comfort her. But thats what always stays is the happy. Take Care. And a snuggle with a cat is the fastest way to help heal a hurting heart.

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[naamah_darling]

Thank you. I certainly understand. If it helps at all, know this:

My nephew was born three months premature. He turned sixteen on Saturday.

There is hope.

My thoughts are with you all.

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[azhure]

I was born three months prem also, and turned 27 this year :) Anything is possible.

[jpallan]

I hope your mother's condition continues to improve.

[neadods]

"All my memories of you are happy memories. I want them all." And I think that was the right thing to say. But I don't know.

It was the right thing to say, I'm sure.

My thoughts are with you - I'm so sorry you're going through all this.

[rabies]

This entry really touched me. In many ways, actually. It sucks to see your grandparents slip away from you. I really wish I were closer to my family right now because of that reason.

[moxiegirl]

for various reasons not all known to me, I am obsessed with losing people and pets I love. It is awful. I feel like I can't even talk about it because I don't want to make other people share that suckiness. So thank you for expressing it.
Also, this reminded me of one of my favorite poems:

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-- Wendell Berry

[naamah_darling]

Wow that is beautiful.

Thanks.