To mourn or not to mourn.

Yes,yes, yes.  I am back on WordPress.  Been gone so long.

Kate asked me today why her Dad and I mourned her loss when she was dying.  She said–What was I like before?”

Then she got out of the car and I spent my lunch time thinking about this and realized that I didn’t want to think about what I was mourning then; I wanted to enjoy the way she is now, the growth she is making now, whoever she is now.  I don’t want to think about what I was going to miss.  I want to think about what I can look forward to.

Kate is insightful, intelligent, self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing, delightful, confusing, and altogether unexpected.

Confronting the wolf

  1.  August 25th—-Tess gets married.
  2.  September 5th—Pat is diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma
  3.  September 11th—I have a heart procedure.
  4.  September 18th—Pat dies
  5.  September 26th—Pat’s memorial
  6.  September 28th–I have an acute case of diverticulitis
  7.  October 12th—Tess meets with her surgeon.  Biopsy scheduled for October 20th.

What the fuck?