"Ding, Dong.... the Witch is Dead!"

[Copyright 2000, all below by this blog's author]


TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

Once you have a relationship
you can never
Not-have-a-relationship
til one or the other [de]ceases.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Or
Out of sight, out of mind
But, not nothing.

Til ONE is nothing.
And then you have --- a memory.



I don't know what pic I'll find to post. I have none of her anymore. But I will extend the 24 hours a little that I gave not to speak ill of the dead. She passed away at 12:25 AM, Wed., 8 Oct 2008 in the ICU of a Tallahassee hospital. She told our sons to go home the preceding evening and, "See you tomorrow." About 2:30 PM of that "tomorrow," I started to get phone calls while I was in the shower and had left the phone by this computer. By the time I heard the urgent, second set of rings, I sensed what they must have been about. Checking the cell's "last call list," I found an uncharacteristically-timed call from my best friend in Tallahassee. My friend confirmed what I had expected. He had called when I didn't answer the sons' previous 2 calls from the shower.

He was surprised that I had no change in attitude or plans about what I was or was not going to do. It figures 'cause he has little psychological insight into ANYone's behavior or what causes it, ANYway! (History "majors" must understand facts, not relationships.) Which leaves him in the cold about any real understanding of the "no-fault" misery she is STILL causing me! WORSE than worthless... Thanks for NOTHING, EX-. We really did NOT deserve each other!