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Donald Miller
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Black and Tans all around....!
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Geoff Gibson
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Decidedly not Black and Tans, Don! I'll stick to Guinness. If I indulged in a Black and Tan, my great grandfather James Callaghan would disown me, my grandfather Bernard Reilly would curse me, and worst of all my grandmother would cry!
Edited by Geoff Gibson on 16 March 2009 at 12:47pm
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Tom French
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...so I hope you will be available for a cold one sometime in July.
Absolutely! It would totally be my pleasure!!!! We'd love to have you guys over to dinner or something equally suburban!
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Joakim Jahlmar
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All this talk of getting together really makes me hope I'll manage to get together a trip across the "pond" at some point in the future... only, it looks like I'd have to cross the US far and wide to get a chance to meet up with even the most "essential" ones of you lot. (Keeping my fingers crossed for that lottery ticket to cash in.)
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Joakim Jahlmar
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On a slightly sadder note (which some of those of you who're my FB friends as well may already have recognised), my paternal grandmother passed away early this morning local time (ca 3:20 AM, CET). She got to be 93 years and one month, so there's no denying she had a lengthy life. At this point I'm feeling slightly muted over all.
It's a weird thing. Not having visited her for quite some time in the home where she spent her final years, I can't seem to shake off this odd unreal feeling... I mean on some level it just makes no sense that she's any more gone today than she was yesterday or the day before that. I didn't see her or speak to her then, just as I've obviously not done today either... but yesterday there was the possibility of doing it which suddenly no longer exists. And it's just weird. Somehow.
Anyways, just wanted to share... and somehow this seemed an appropriate place to share it. Among the closer group of people of this thread, this little community within the bigger community...
I'll stop rambling now.
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David Ferguson
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The clan motto: Dulcius Ex Asperis (Sweeter after difficulties).
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Jodi Moisan
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It's a weird thing. Not having visited her for quite some time in the home where she spent her final years, I can't seem to shake off this odd unreal feeling... I mean on some level it just makes no sense that she's any more gone today than she was yesterday or the day before that. I didn't see her or speak to her then, just as I've obviously not done today either... but yesterday there was the possibility of doing it which suddenly no longer exists. And it's just weird. Somehow
Joakim I am so sorry about your grandmother. I know what you are saying about the possibility of the visit, I was very close to my maternal grandmother we were not only related we were kindred spirits. I google mapped my house a while back and realized the map was a couple years old and was excited to know I could google my grandmothers house and it would still be there.( It was bought by the local college and torn down for a dorm.) It was strangely reasurring to get a copy of the picture, knowing when it was taken she was most likely in it.
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Bruce Buchanan
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the group of Protestants that immigrated from Scotland to Northern Ireland in the 1600s.
Wow, Bruce, now I feel bad. Some of my ancestors likely killed some of your ancestors! Sorry about that!
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Well, to be fair, I think both sides did some pretty bad stuff back in those days. I'm sure it probably went both ways.
And I'm sorry about your grandmother, Joakim.
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Michael Tortorice
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Joakim, I'm sorry to hear of your loss. And you weren't rambling, you were mourning and allowing us to share in it.
I understand, as much as anyone is able to at a time like this. I lost both grandmothers within four months in '88-'89.
Remember the good times and keep telling the stories. It doesn't help now but it will eventually.
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David Ferguson
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Sorry to hear about her too, Joakim. The same thing happened with my grandmother. I hadn't seen her as much in the months before she died as I had in previous years. Like Jodi, I have a strange way of remembering her though. She was in a Spice Girls video!
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Geoff Gibson
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Sorry for your loss Joakim. May she rest in peace.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Thanks for the kind words, guys.
My mind is still trying grasp all the bits and pieces of this. I still feel weird though. Mostly because my reaction is so different than my previous encounters with grandparents dying. I never knew my paternal grandfather and actually thought him to be dead up until the point when someone told me he'd just died... at which point he were, which was weird, but I'd no relation whatsoever (other than genes, of course) to the man, nor did I ever meet him.
My maternal grandparents were a completely different matter and I broke down fairly fast (yes, I'm quite easily a bawler and I'm a man) in both cases... crying my eyes out. My grandfather who was the first of them to go was my first real encounter with death that close, and also my first funeral, not to mention happening when I was in 9th grade, so obviously that was upsetting on many levels.
My maternal grandmother was, however, the biggest loss, because just like Jodi described above with hers, the two of us had a special connection. She was always the one to support my notion of writing (which is not to say that my parents have ever been anything less than 100% supportive, merely that the bond she and I had was sooo very special).
My paternal grandmother (who just passed) was different. I'm not saying I loved her any less, but our relation was very different. Yet I'm still surprised by not having shed any tears as of yet. I just feel so numb. Muted. I'm sure it'll probably hit me sooner or later (if not sooner, most likely at the funeral), but it still feels somewhat uncharacteristic for me not to have shed tears (though sometimes feeling a hint of them in my tear ducts).
I don't know, maybe I'm just inbetween shock and remembering good stuff, seeing a full life come to a close in a calm fine manner (because her passing seem to have been of the kind that we may all wish for when that time comes). But still... it does feel weird to feel so numbed.
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