Afternoon! I hope the next couple of days go better than expected. At least you’ll be able to talk to people other than the fan of the Clintons!
If today is any indication, things will be far worse before they are better. I’m not hopeful.
Several times this day I have wished I had stayed home, and at the “picnic” today, the wind was blowing too much that I could do nothing but try to be nice. I was “admonished” by a niece that my talk may be better off not said at the funeral. Having done her duty, that was the first and last I saw of her. So I’m in the “lodging” room, because I just can’t deal with stupidity any more today.
I think the thing that bothers me most is that at the mother’s funeral six years ago, it was OK for the kids to poke fun at each other, but when my living brother asked me to tell of a childhood incident concerning the recently deceased brother, I’m asked not to. Maybe things will look better tomorrow, but right now, they are downright dismal. I feel like she was asked to caution me because I’m not my brother’s child, only his sister — the only one that would talk to him in the last 40 years.
If I were independently wealthy, I would rent a car, and drive home right after the funeral tomorrow.