19 October 2009

Lack of a camera...

...and too many jobs (well, down to two now...not counting "mom") make for seriously infrequent blog posts...

02 October 2009

you will be missed, Uncle Dan...


Gone too soon...at least that is what we will be thinking this side of eternity when we talk about Uncle Dan's death this week.  It was such a shocking message when my mum called to tell me.  She was just this side of hysterics and hard to understand.  At first, I thought it was DAD, not DAN she had said, and I really had to collect myself.  Then a calmer mum restated, Uncle Dan had died of a heart attack only an hour or so before.  And yet realizing who it was she was talking about had just as much sting as if I had heard it as I first thought. 
We are a close family, especially on my mum's side.  We often got together just to be together -- Oktoberfest last weekend was a good example.  Somethings are just hard to understand in this life.  Good happens and so does the bad.  It is just hard to settle in on the bad when one is surrounded by so much good.  I suppose I will just have to make that effort to keep looking for happy among the sad bits that we are going through this week...
My prayers and thoughts are of you auntie...