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Friday, July 10, 2009
A good Feeling
THe last blog here was a year ago (!!!)...
We dealt with the passing of my mother, and of a close friend. Turned out 2008 was a bad year.. 8 funerals, and only 2 were not cancer related.
However... the title refres to the fact that my father, after WW11, bought a property on Vancouver Island that included 100' of lakefront. Well, mother's estate was finally settled (including my nephew buying the property from the estate, so IT STAYS IN THE FAMILY!!)..
and our share of the estate allowed us to retire the mortgage. Yes, a very Good Feeling.
Maybe I'll blog again before another year passes....
We dealt with the passing of my mother, and of a close friend. Turned out 2008 was a bad year.. 8 funerals, and only 2 were not cancer related.
However... the title refres to the fact that my father, after WW11, bought a property on Vancouver Island that included 100' of lakefront. Well, mother's estate was finally settled (including my nephew buying the property from the estate, so IT STAYS IN THE FAMILY!!)..
and our share of the estate allowed us to retire the mortgage. Yes, a very Good Feeling.
Maybe I'll blog again before another year passes....
Saturday, July 12, 2008
It has been a while
The last entry was about my mother's 100th. Well, she lasted another two months and then decided that was enough, and slipped quietly away. We gave her a good send-off, in a hand-made coffin, and lots of both tears and laughter at the service.
So today I am in Vernon, B.C., where some old friends live. D and I met in grade 11, discovered that we are identical birthday twins, had a shared love of literature, became editors of the high school annual in our graduating year - like brother and sister. We never dated, but when she had a new boyfriend I was the first person she called - and vice-versa...
Then we went to college together, she met P, and that was it. P and I also become closest friends.
That was 50 years ago. I am here in Vernon because P has cancer and probably 2 weeks to live. Can anyone tell me why cancer has come so invasive, so prevalent? I feel so lucky, yet guilty that I have my health at an age that has already taken younger friends and relatives....
In a veil of tears we can only wait...in a veil of tears we can only grieve...in a veil of tears we wait our own fate...in a veil of tears, we can only say goodbye...
So today I am in Vernon, B.C., where some old friends live. D and I met in grade 11, discovered that we are identical birthday twins, had a shared love of literature, became editors of the high school annual in our graduating year - like brother and sister. We never dated, but when she had a new boyfriend I was the first person she called - and vice-versa...
Then we went to college together, she met P, and that was it. P and I also become closest friends.
That was 50 years ago. I am here in Vernon because P has cancer and probably 2 weeks to live. Can anyone tell me why cancer has come so invasive, so prevalent? I feel so lucky, yet guilty that I have my health at an age that has already taken younger friends and relatives....
In a veil of tears we can only wait...in a veil of tears we can only grieve...in a veil of tears we wait our own fate...in a veil of tears, we can only say goodbye...
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