caudor
Adventurer
It ain't heavy. You're our poster.
I was just thinking about my late mother recently. Her birthday was a week and a half ago and, strangely, on another board I sometimes frequent someone, just offhandedly, happened to make a joke at her expense. When I mentioned her being dead, just flatly and thinking that should coax a normal person to leave well enough alone, the response was to follow up with a additional joke at her expense compounded with the new information of her being dead. The Internet can house both kindness and rudeness in abundance. Thank goodness that we can sometimes find the kindness (no, stoners, not that kindness this time).
Thanks Mark, I know you were one of the people who replied to my old thread. In the thread you mentioned your mother, and I wish now that I had offered you such words back then like you did for me. I was lost and self-absorbed. The best I can do now is to echo those same words back to you today, changing only a few words (parent and time)---
My condolences, Mark. Lost my father in 2004. It's still tough sometimes. Chin up. It gets easier each day.
You were right, and I hope you have healed as I have.
