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[omimouse]

Our TV is pretty much a screen for the various things (DVD player, VHS, Nintendo, PS) attatched to it, so avoiding TV crap today isn't going to be all that hard. Web news stuff is something that I will also be avoiding today.

I will spend today with the Phooka, who is being cuter than can possibly be imagined in the big red chair behind me. Warin is over to my right, and Louis will be awake shortly.

Remember those who are no longer with us, but spend today with the living. Don't get so wrapped up with the loss that you loose your own life to it.

And I think that this is all I will have to say on the subject of today.

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[fimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Don't get so wrapped up with the loss that you loose your own life to it.

Thank you for these words.

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

I learned that lesson at the age of 9. Anne, a very dear woman who had been like a grandmother to me, was shot to death by her son-in-law.

I spent a week not wanting to do anything, including breathe. One of the librarians (another very dear woman by the name of Pat) at the library I went to pulled me aside at the start of the second week. I cried, and screamed, and yelled, and she held me. She was the one who first gave me those words. She was the one adult who didn't lie, who didn't tell me that it would stop hurting. She told me that some day, it wouldn't hurt as much, but she did not lie to me and tell me it would eventually stop hurting. And she refused to let me get so wrapped up in the pain that I was consumed by it.

To this day, I credit her with being the reason that lost little 9 year old girl didn't just fade away.

She was one hell of a damn fine woman.