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Sorry to hear this Mendalla.... it's good your wife will have an opportunity to be with her Dad and that your friends parents blessed you with such wonderful memories to hold dear.
I've made you a cup of tea to drink in the room and it's your favourite. Put your feet up and exhale.
 
Aww Mendalla - sad week indeed. So many passages .... makes me realize yet again the importance of filling each day with moments of grace & love as much as we can. Hugs to you. Is little M coming home for the summer?
 
Carolla said:
Aww Mendalla - sad week indeed. So many passages .... makes me realize yet again the importance of filling each day with moments of grace & love as much as we can. Hugs to you. Is little M coming home for the summer?
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Not until August. He is taking some summer courses now until July. We were just there helping move to his summer place.
 
Tough time, Mendalla. So hard to say that silent farewell to a part of the past. Extra hard when Mrs. M is away too. And she will have her own challenges. Sending kind thoughts.
 
So Sorry Mendalla. It is sad when we lose friends and people we've known for some time.
Seelerman and I also have a funeral to attend this week. We've known C--- for a few years through his family, and gotten to know him better this past year since he retired from full time work and joined our bowling league. Two weeks ago Seelerman and C--- worked together for a few days on an on-call driving job. The next day he had a heart attack, followed by a stroke. A second stroke had the family on standby but the hours stretched to days and he recovered enough to communicate by thumbs up or thumbs down. Then on Sunday he slipped away - probably a blessing since there was so little hope of a meaningful recovery. But he was only 66. He should have had a few years to enjoy his retirement.

I found some of last years rhubarb in the freezer - and some strawberries. I stewed them together with a bit of sugar. I'm setting them out with cottage cheese and there's whole wheat bread by the toaster. Enjoy.
 
BC Conference is in my city at the end of the month. Somegal or was it Somegalfrom Canada will be staying with me. After meeting on WC we made a point of getting together at 3 Conferences.
I was just assigned by official billet. It is also a former WCer. Clergychickita.
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Hugs to everyone who's had a loss recently and to Monk and George, for their Mom. I've started to realize that, as people die, we "lose our memories", or confirmation of them. I was wracking my brain to think of what band my husband and I had gone to see at The Dard in Wasaga Beach before we had kids, when we were first married. Could not remember. No-one to ask now.

Isn't it fun to expand your circle via WC, Tab?
 
Okay, 21st century funeral etiquette. I am definitely going to my friend's mother's visitation, maybe the funeral (the latter is dangerously close to an important work meeting, though, so I am not sure). So do I sign the virtual guestbook? I can write more there than I can in the book at the visitation given the state of my hands vis a vis handwriting, but it seems a bit redundant to use it when I'm going to see the family in person in two days. Any thoughts?
 
I would write in the virtual book because they will then have your words to

look at rather than try and recall what you said.
 
Yes write in a guest book, be it virtual or in real life. Emotions are heightened at funerals and memory is not in top form. A written record is useful.
 
I'd agree, sign the virtual book, as well as in person. Chances are, unless you're family or extremely close friend, you'll be one face in a long parade of faces that day of the visitation.
 
I'm sorry to hear about the losses people here have experienced. I'm thinking of you during this time.
 
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