died Q Cool! Green is alive, and so, as always, is luck, unless you're in the wrong spaceship at the wrong time. 030203 ... Q That all should have said, to start with, "Cool. Green has not died, and neither has luck, ..." 030203 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Nobody I know, just people I know of: Oliver Sacks and Wes Craven. Oliver Sacks was a neurologist who wrote books about minds and the strange things they do sometimes, and Wes Craven was a movie director. And what connection do I have to them? None. Except watching the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie and looking at one of Sacks' books in a store. It just seems that too many people are dying whom I didn't expect to die. A wood carver from my artisans' club two weeks ago, for example (somebody I knew a little, that time, and not famous). 150831 ... nr weird that this showed up today. my grandfather/zaidy passed away today. he was 90, and it was beginning to be expected, but still. things just feel weird. it's weird to talk to people about this kind of thing because then they feel weird? i don't know. my brain is just weird. weirdly (how much can i say the word weird?), i feel like joking around today? or at least having other people make jokes? 150831 ... nr i think i mostly feel anxious 150831 ... amy in red condolences to you nr. 150901 ... amy in red my maternal grandfather passed away on my paternal grandmother's birthday and she has since passed away as well. both of these deaths are still unbelievable to me even though i know we all got to die someday. it makes me realize how much heartbreak is in store for us as we grow older. before 2011, i had not experienced that much of it. (capricorn on my 8th house means death comes with aging, mostly, i guess.) 150901 ... nr thank you, amy. yeah, it's weird to think people just won't be around anymore, ever. 150901 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I'm sorry about that. I remember a couple of days after my grandpa (mom's father) died I was following my father through grocery store and I looked at the cake toppings. Corny things: plastic balloons and sprinkles. I looked at those and realized I wasn't uniformly sad, just sort of flat inside, and that it was hard to believe he'd died just two days ago. 150905 ... e_o_i There's a grief in the world being slightly different and not seeing someone again in it, even if their death doesn't affect the material comings and goings of your life that much... I think. Right now, I'm in a happy (literal) place, but I miss my brother. He went away for university out of province. He was gone all summer except for the last two weeks of August, and it didn't occur to me to miss him then. But now he's going to Nova Scotia and I'm going to stay in Montreal and probably not see him again until the winter holidays, I miss him. 150905 ... e_o_i He (my little brother, not that little) didn't even die, but I'm making an equivalency: forgive me if that was insensitive. 150905 what's it to you? who go blather from