how it ends

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Have been thinking of this song a lot lately.  Maybe because my birthday is coming this week, and everything that comes with being older.  I’m reminded of all that has come before, and all of the people who have gone on.  The lyrics are so filled with meaning.  I don’t know the religious beliefs of DeVotchKa but the words really resonate with me:

Hold your grandmother’s Bible to your breast

Gonna put it to the test

You wanted to be blessed…

 Maybe it also has something to do with how the song was used in the commercial for Gears of War 2.  And that game came out in a really trying period for me.  I thought the song was beautiful.  It has become an anthem in my mind, when I think back to certain things that have happened in my life.

So here it is, one of my ...

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Ten years ago today, our family lost the nucleus around which we revolved our lives. That was the day that Elsie Roberts, my beloved grandmother – and who was called “Granny” by everyone who knew her – was taken Home.

(Here’s the memorial write-up that I did a few years ago on the occasion of what would have been Granny’s 100th birthday.)

That was the beginning of a very long and dark period of my life (which might have been pretty dark to begin with). And for quite some time after that I was horribly depressed… and especially about thoughts of death and dying. Granny’s passing would be the first of many people that I loved and cared about that passed away within a short period of time.

There isn’t a day that’s gone by since that afternoon ten years ago, that I haven’t thought of Granny. But ...

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