Here I am, the day after Christmas 2014. And I'm only writing this because a lot of people were praying for me yesterday, that I might get through this holiday.
Grief is hard enough already. It's especially heartbreaking when it comes so close to the holiday season and you see that empty chair at the table. It's not something that I haven't experienced already. Mom passed away three days after Christmas three years ago, and...
Friday, December 26, 2014
Saturday, December 20, 2014
It's a very Dalek Christmas!
Okay, that's it. I give up. I didn't know how having a Christmas this year was going to be at all possible. In light of everything that's happened in the past nearly two months, yuletide joy was something that seemed way past feasibility. Although, I haven't begrudged anyone from having that. Just feels like I'm on the outside looking in this...
Friday, December 19, 2014
Currently going through a bout of depression...
Actually, it's a rapid-cycling episode that's been going on for the past two days. I woke up yesterday morning, remembered that Dad was gone, went into sadness that suddenly plummeted into clinical depression (something that lacks any emotion whatsoever) and then got catapulted into a bout of mania where the sadness returned, got escalated beyond my ready grasp of things,...
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Classic SESAME STREET: Bert and Ernie's "The Gift of the Magi"
Good googeley moogely... it's been ages since I posted any Sesame Street clips!! I think maybe at least two years, maybe longer than that. How in the world did I overlook such timeless material? Shame on me!
Time to make up for it. And boy howdy, do I get to make up for it...
I was waaaay young when this aired but I vividly remember it. It was part of a Sesame Street Christmas special from... I think it was 1980? ...
Friday, December 12, 2014
The book: Moving ahead...
It was three weeks ago today that Dad passed away. I'm still in a great state of grief, more than that even, about it. There's a real shock that comes with seeing someone so close to you suddenly leaving you like that. But I still believe that there was something of God's hand in how things played out. If the circumstances had been slightly different in any of a thousand different ways, my family would not have had those sixteen...
You voted Republican last month? Why?
I'm going to say something right now, and I don't care if it offends
ANY body. If it happens to offend you, good: maybe you NEED offending
to open your eyes...
There is NO difference at all between the
Democrat and Republican parties and anyone who puts the SLIGHTEST amount
of trust in one party or the other... and I'm going to single out those
who support the Republican party especially... are worse than fools and
idiots.
For the past...
Monday, December 01, 2014
Memorial video for Dad
On the night after Dad's passing, Anita (my sister), my aunt and uncle and I went through a ton of old photographs to use in the video that the funeral home would put together for the tribute that would play during visitation on the following night. Wilkerson Funeral did a very solid job in doing so and I wanted to share it on my blog.
I don't want to say which one, but there is one photo in here that seriously broke my heart to include. It...
