...and i'd like to thank the academy...
i am bad about writing thank you notes. it's not because i'm not grateful. i have trouble doing things i don't do well, and i struggle with expressing my gratitude in writing. now, justin - he writes a mean thank you note. he wrote almost all of our wedding thank-yous; i was happy to address and stuff and stamp all the envelopes in return for that kind of beautifulness.
but it's important that i say thank you today. there are many things for which i need to thank a ton of my fellow bloggers, but right now i need to express my gratitude to everyone who has surrounded me with their sympathy and well wishes and undeserved compliments and understanding. i wear your sentiments around my shoulders like a superhero's cape as i leave to see my father. you all give me strength.
i fly out in a few hours. my brother is reportedly trying to de-smoke his truck for my benefit as i write this post, and he will pick me up just before noon from the tampa airport and carry me to the hospital. i have no idea what my dad's wife likes (my sister once described her taste as "country", but that could mean so many things), but i bought her a scarf as a token of nice-to-meet-you-ness, and i've packed it next to the quaker hymnal i'm taking to my dad, who used to collect hymnals of various denominations and languages. i've also packed my camera. will it be appropriate to take pictures? will my dad even want pictures of him taken in a hospital bed? who knows. i'll play it by ear.
i hope it goes well. if it doesn't, at least it will be short. i fly out at noon on sunday, back to justin and love and acceptance and fresh mushrooms and episodes 2 and 3 of disc 3 of season 2 of six feet under. by 2:30 sunday, i will be safe again. provided i don't make any more illegal left turns on the way home from the airport.
but it's important that i say thank you today. there are many things for which i need to thank a ton of my fellow bloggers, but right now i need to express my gratitude to everyone who has surrounded me with their sympathy and well wishes and undeserved compliments and understanding. i wear your sentiments around my shoulders like a superhero's cape as i leave to see my father. you all give me strength.
i fly out in a few hours. my brother is reportedly trying to de-smoke his truck for my benefit as i write this post, and he will pick me up just before noon from the tampa airport and carry me to the hospital. i have no idea what my dad's wife likes (my sister once described her taste as "country", but that could mean so many things), but i bought her a scarf as a token of nice-to-meet-you-ness, and i've packed it next to the quaker hymnal i'm taking to my dad, who used to collect hymnals of various denominations and languages. i've also packed my camera. will it be appropriate to take pictures? will my dad even want pictures of him taken in a hospital bed? who knows. i'll play it by ear.
i hope it goes well. if it doesn't, at least it will be short. i fly out at noon on sunday, back to justin and love and acceptance and fresh mushrooms and episodes 2 and 3 of disc 3 of season 2 of six feet under. by 2:30 sunday, i will be safe again. provided i don't make any more illegal left turns on the way home from the airport.
posted by laura at 12:47 AM
4 Comments:
Travel safely and keep that cape on. You are a vibrant healthy woman IN SPITE of your fatherand all the other tragedy that has befallen you), not because of him. You owe no one any apologies and your goodwill is a precious gift to him. I hope on some level he understands just what you are doing for him here. I'll be thinking of you ((hugs))
Don't know if you'll see this but yes, take pictures!
I'm so sorry about your dad and I hope that you can have some calm time with him this weekend.
Safe journey and we are thinking of you.
Take pictures. I look back at the pictures I took of my grandmother at the end and even though it wasn't the way I wanted to remember her, the expressions on the faces of the people around her gave them meaning.
I remember I shot one intentionally out of focus, because that's how things felt. She was gone.
Fly safely. Thinking of you.
Thinking of you and sending you strength. And don't thank us, this is what we are all here for, and I know you will (and DO) provide support for each of us in return. ((((hugs)))
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