Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
When the end comes
My mother passed away on Friday morning at 6:30 a.m.
But first, thank God, there was Thursday.
That was the day that I came into her hospital room and there she was, sitting up in the bed, smiling and talking to the aide. After days of being pretty much unresponsive, unseeing, and with only fleeting smiles on her […]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Living and dying in Florida
I was born in Florida–and so being back here is familiar to certain cells of mine, cells that agree that moss is supposed to hang from trees, and that grass blades are meant to be nearly one inch thick, and the air is supposed to be heavy with moisture.
In the same way that the […]
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Off to Florida–but first, a reading
I’m leaving tomorrow morning to go and see my mother, and it’s beginning to feel as though this will be the last time.
She’s much weaker now. She’s had a few falls, and she is refusing to eat, the nurses tell me–and even though they bring her to the telephone when I call, I almost feel […]
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Intense times call for intense songs
I keep falling out of blogging.
I mean to blog, even just if it’s to record these times, to write something I can look back on and remember after this is over. But then…well, everything changes so quickly.
And honestly? I’m about five-eighths of a wreck most of the time.
My mother seems to be fading more quickly than […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
The way it is
Seen on a bumper sticker today:
At least the war on the environment is going well.
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
An interesting take on global warming
I’ve been writing about my mom’s cancer for so many days–and thinking about this just about every single second, too–that it is a pleasure to remember that there’s a lot of other things going on in the world.
Global warming, for instance.
And crazy people.
Today my friend Nancy sent me the text of a letter that was printed […]
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Life on the decison-making roller coaster
Every day lately my life changes three or four times.
Ever since my mother was diagnosed with inoperable cancer three weeks ago, one of the very worst, worst parts has been that none of us seems to know what is supposed to happen next. We just can’t get a handle on it.
Here are the firm decisions […]