Fort Wayne IN

[thatguy]

cranefly - I've been staring at this thread, circling it. I keep coming back to it thinking I have something to say and I can't find the words. After mulling it for some time, I think I've figured it out...the thread begins with your narrative style that we've seen in so many great posts and then your post ends with this abrupt, shocking disclosure (more so than DM's derriere issues) which caught me off guard. My sister passed away 9 years ago. She was 39. It was just as abrupt. I got a call at work that something had happened and by the time I had left work, gathered the family and went up to see her in Half Moon Bay she had already passed. In fact, she went really quickly. Some sort of blood clot. She was probably already gone when I got the first phone call, I just didn't know it at the time. It took me a while to really get used to the fact that she's not around. We weren't too close. Mostly we'd see each other on holidays or birthdays. I was on her mailing list and I'd see her regular email blasts, but we didn't talk much directly, so the only real immediate change was I stopped getting her emails. It felt like she was off on some adventure or vacation more than anything else. (Maybe that was an easier way for me to deal with it.) What was hardest for me was to see how it affected my parents. Enough time has passed since then that everyone seems healed for the most part. I still think of things that would have thrilled her and feel sad that she missed them, like the LOTR movies, Where the Wild Things Are (she was a huge Sendak fan), and most recently Avatar...I think that would have blown her mind. I'm thinking good thoughts for you and your family and hope that time heals for you as well...

I'm too lazy to read actual books, but I just subscribed to your podcast and am looking forward to hearing the first chapter. I'm hoping I can pick out the jets flying over.

--tg