Thank you for telling me about your friend, Greg. He sure sounds like a wonderful guy and had to leave too soon. He would be very happy with your memories of him and of ‘you and I talking about him’. I have lost some close to me in the last few weeks as a matter of fact. They might have been older than your friend.
One was my next door neighbor, Brenda, 61, who found she had cancer in July and died in October. My DIL’s first cousin, only 58, died right after Brenda from breast cancer that she also found out about in July. And I lost a classmate just recently....just died a sudden death. She and I had sat together for our last Lunch Bunch in October and she died about three weeks after that lunch. I attended 3 funerals in 9 days.....it was kinda hard to take. So I do understand
broken hearts.
And I am going to sure look into those Fannie Flagg books. It is nice that you are working in a lot of reading. I always loved to read, but since the computer, I just don’t take the time and I should. So good for the brain I hear! I’ve gotta run a few errands. Talked your ear off~~LOL~~
Jaycee, what a great post and I’m so sorry I wasn’t online much when these losses where happening in your life..:( I think I was caught up in campaigning, etc.
I do remember Brenda and how you portrayed her and her plight so well. It’s very sad to lose these wonderful women in an untimely way. A long-time friend of mine lost his beloved wife to breast ca when their children were yet toddlers. He made the story into a successful one-man play, quite remarkably. What a wonderful, loving man and he did find a second wife.
Funerals are heavy and that was a difficult time for you, but a tremendous honor to pay respects to the lives of 3 friends.
On a lighter note, yes, reading is good for the brain. In fact, I realized my brain had been craving this nourishment. I am now reading “Flags of Our Fathers,” about the American men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.