walking and thinking
The highlight of the weekend was taking a walk last night with N&J and we checked out all of the Halloween decorations in our neighborhood.
I have nothing else left to say about Trot except good luck to him and his family and he will be missed.
Finally finished Time Traveller's Wife and have a few comments. The way it ended with her seeing him and waiting for him every day as an old lady was very touching to me, additionally the way their daughter knew he was dead before the wife did was something I thought about often. Unfortunately I receommended this book to several people before realizing how raw and how much graphic sex stuff is in it, which, while disturbing, did not negate the strong feelings the end of the book brought up. In a way it reminded me of the show Six Feet Under, again reminding me of the fraility of my own existence, and left pondering what will happen when I die, how will my family react. Hopefully people remember fondly and lovingly and say that I was a good man.
I was talking about wakes and funerals and other fun stuff with Aga last week in the basement while we were watching a movie and she said that besides her family not many people would be at her funeral and that she preferred not to have a wake. i told her that I think a wake is very very important, it enables the living to say goodbye to the dead. And then we joked that it would not matter becasue surely I will die before her. But who knows. I guess the point is, to have a love as strong as the characters did in the book, to spend your whole life waiting just waiting for someone just to see them one more time, well that sums it all up for me. Throughout the story I was reminded again and again how strong their love was, though at the end it was reinforced for me, and after the painful parts, it left me very pleased.
I have nothing else left to say about Trot except good luck to him and his family and he will be missed.
Finally finished Time Traveller's Wife and have a few comments. The way it ended with her seeing him and waiting for him every day as an old lady was very touching to me, additionally the way their daughter knew he was dead before the wife did was something I thought about often. Unfortunately I receommended this book to several people before realizing how raw and how much graphic sex stuff is in it, which, while disturbing, did not negate the strong feelings the end of the book brought up. In a way it reminded me of the show Six Feet Under, again reminding me of the fraility of my own existence, and left pondering what will happen when I die, how will my family react. Hopefully people remember fondly and lovingly and say that I was a good man.
I was talking about wakes and funerals and other fun stuff with Aga last week in the basement while we were watching a movie and she said that besides her family not many people would be at her funeral and that she preferred not to have a wake. i told her that I think a wake is very very important, it enables the living to say goodbye to the dead. And then we joked that it would not matter becasue surely I will die before her. But who knows. I guess the point is, to have a love as strong as the characters did in the book, to spend your whole life waiting just waiting for someone just to see them one more time, well that sums it all up for me. Throughout the story I was reminded again and again how strong their love was, though at the end it was reinforced for me, and after the painful parts, it left me very pleased.
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