death_life past during the week my sister is due to give birth, my grandfather died. 090303 ... belly fire There are no tears, however you are gone from us. It was expected, though how could a family prepare. A mother, a sister, an aunt, a godmother, a grandmother. A short yet full life, you leave us as you lived; ready to move along. Goodbye Auntie Dianne, and much love. 090303 ... rt my sympathy to you both... 090303 ... past i like to think when i woke at 3am too_tired_to_sleep, restless and numb, until after 4, that there was some connection to his flight. 090303 ... cr0wl i totally understand... when my dad passed away 7 years ago, i actually beheld the moment his spirit left his body, a sight, like something physically yanked from him, that i will never forget. we're not just science. 090303 ... unhinged recollection_of_a_death on blue my niece was born at the same time of day my grandmother died. holding that child in my arms changed my life. i have never beheld that as a coincidence. 090303 ... unhinged (when i was in europe, before i knew KNEW my grandma passed, we were in a little cobblestoned town in the czech republic and the sun hit the amber plastic of a cross on a leather cord so right that i bought it. i lit a candle in a church in vienna. i prayed and cried in a church in budapest. i felt genetic echoes everywhere i went. to this day, when the sun breaks through the clouds, it feels like a hug from my grandma) 090303 ... jane all my tattoos. 090304 ... past a few hours away. my dad sent me the eulogy he wrote. "that wasn't the hard part, now i actually have to read it." the minister, united church, is from where my older brothers were baptized and my parents wed. 090306 ... past still no word on the baby's arrival. 090306 ... jane creation_destruction 090415 what's it to you? who go blather from