A Fly on the Wall
Viewing comments for Chapter 14 "On Celebrating Life"A journal musings and assessments about situations
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Comment from susand3022
Hi Rachelle, I'm sorry that you're at 'that stage of your life' ... it has to (for lack of a better word) suck. I'll be getting there myself soon, have lost a couple already, one years ago to cancer, she left a husband and two little boys, the other two to accidents. I also lost a friend I worked with to a heart attack. She was in her 30's but had done drugs in her 20's and they caught up with her later. A reason not to do hard drugs when you're young, they can get you when you're older, even if you've given them up years earlier and you take good care of yourself. She went out to feed the chickens one morning and that was that. She left behind a 10-year-old son. I can't go on FB anymore and I don't read the papers. I just don't want to know anymore.
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2019
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Hi Rachelle, I'm sorry that you're at 'that stage of your life' ... it has to (for lack of a better word) suck. I'll be getting there myself soon, have lost a couple already, one years ago to cancer, she left a husband and two little boys, the other two to accidents. I also lost a friend I worked with to a heart attack. She was in her 30's but had done drugs in her 20's and they caught up with her later. A reason not to do hard drugs when you're young, they can get you when you're older, even if you've given them up years earlier and you take good care of yourself. She went out to feed the chickens one morning and that was that. She left behind a 10-year-old son. I can't go on FB anymore and I don't read the papers. I just don't want to know anymore.
Comment Written 30-Jun-2019
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2019
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I hear you, Susan. xo
Comment from Heather Knight
I think that's a great idea. A friend of mine did something similar for her husband some years ago.
My daughter also loves All You Need Is Love. She has a tattoo of some of the notes on her ankle.
Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2019
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I think that's a great idea. A friend of mine did something similar for her husband some years ago.
My daughter also loves All You Need Is Love. She has a tattoo of some of the notes on her ankle.
Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 30-Jun-2019
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2019
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What a cool idea!! xo
Comment from Rikki66
In the old Japanese religion, I remember from my youth in Japan. death was the way your friend Gail saw it. A reason for the celebration of life. Good story, well written.
Rikki:)xo
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In the old Japanese religion, I remember from my youth in Japan. death was the way your friend Gail saw it. A reason for the celebration of life. Good story, well written.
Rikki:)xo
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Comment Written 30-Jun-2019
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2019
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Thanks, Rikki. That is wonderful to know. xo
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You are most welcome.
Rikki:)xo
Comment from LisaMay
Your story strikes a chord with me about funerals; and how the best form of mourning is to be uplifted by the departed's life in celebration. You wrote very moving about Gail's gathering.
Can you tell me please what songs will be on YOUR songsheet?
I want to start practising the songs so I will be ready in case you go before I do, many many many many many years hence. We both have far too much to do before we are old enough to lose it.
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Your story strikes a chord with me about funerals; and how the best form of mourning is to be uplifted by the departed's life in celebration. You wrote very moving about Gail's gathering.
Can you tell me please what songs will be on YOUR songsheet?
I want to start practising the songs so I will be ready in case you go before I do, many many many many many years hence. We both have far too much to do before we are old enough to lose it.
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Comment Written 30-Jun-2019
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2019
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Let me get back to you on that.
And thank you for the validating review. I appreciate it immensely because I respect your opinion so very much. xo
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Actually, by the time you are ready to die, the songsheet will have been updated so often as to possibly be unrecognisable, because of the passage of years. Although we are bound to think that the futuristic 'modern' music is not a patch on the music of our own formative eras.
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Good point! Maybe it should be like a will --updated every five years or so...