bear totem: possibly magic
December has mostly been made of days in a row of back to back meetings; several difficult-but-necessary ‘I am terminating your contract early’ conversations; the creation of Santa’s grotto in the Project Team corner of the office; a somewhat feeble and largely unsuccessful attempt to get more sleep and consume more veges; the trying on of many frocks, the purchasing of one, and then the wearing of something I already had to the Christmas party that ended at around 5am in my hotel room yesterday with three women, several pizzas and many laughs. This has all been accompanied by the cough of death that is now squatting in my lungs and causing mayhem, à la the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 (albeit on the scale of a pair of early-middle-aged lungs).
Oh yeah and on the ninth? It was nine years since Mum shuffled off this mortal coil. And this week, Hitch died. Which is not even remotely in the same hemisphere as loosing a parent, obviously, but reading the tributes to this great angry tiger of a man has left me sad in a weirdly tangible way.
Sometimes I feel a wondrous affection for those happy days, when death and grief were just words that didn’t echo in my heart.
Just five more sleeps and then a few days of chillaxin’ with ma lovah.
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Although I don’t always comment here, sas, I always always enjoy hearing about your life. Wish the cough would get better, but in five more sleeps, your life does get a whole lot better.
sas Replied:
Hello you! what a pleasure to get your message. I am rubbish at commenting too but its so good to hear from you x
Less chit chat, more desert island top 5 lists please.
Cheers to you.
Cheers to your mom.
Love to both of you.
sas Replied:
love back at you x
My heart goes out with empathy and pangs of pain. I am six years on from mum leaving this world and less than a year since dad went the same way. Hearing of Vaclav Havel’s death – author of the ever-pertinent the Politics of Hope and a surreal writer whose work prompted me to study Czech – triggered similar feelings with me.
sas Replied:
When I heard that Kim Jong Ill had died, I wondered if God had let Hitch & Havel pick the third :)