On the Death of Saints

[personaminor]

graduate
a. To change gradually or by degrees.
b. To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity.

It would appear that this step has completed itself, the call answered without choice or preference. Suddenly the receiver appears on the cradle, and before we can even begin our period of stunned silence abject dismay, the

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[apostate_96]

Sorry, but the initial smartass response is that I never knew my graduation from high school had affected you so strongly!! ;}

I'm more inclined to think there was someone important/special who passed away then. However, for the life of me I can't think who that might've been. Mea culpa if I should remember but don't.

I definitely get your point about the grief following us home after such things, and seeming to accentuate even the little things around us. I also agree about the Creator joining us, both in celebration and in sorrow.

[personaminor]

No one you would know, but there's kind of an interesting story to it all. Very strange the way events seem to sometimes clump around certain days. I don't get it.
The thing I like about the Creator is that when It joins me in my not knowing, It still knows.

[apostate_96]

I'd definitely be interested in hearing the details of that story someday, if you'd care to share. And it is interesting the way things cluster. I'm not sure I entirely understand it, either, but the idea of "strange attractors" in chaos theory seems to do a better job than anything else I've ever run across.

Agreed about the Creator, too. I always loved the bit out of The Stand when one character says he doesn't believe in God and the old lady busts out laughing and says that it doesn't matter; God believes in him!

[personaminor]

I will try to get an email out to you today with the condensed version of the story.
I think that the theory of strange attractors applies, and I've been thinking on my own about something like entanglement, but on a temporal level. It's really hard to describe, or really even think about, and I guess it would be next to impossible to research, but I have a vague notion about it in my head.