So the last couple of days have been busy with condolence messages and texts and emails and general concern, and thank you so much.
I've been making soup
Bringing in the basils from outside to hang in the kitchen
Honoring women's art
And finding that my mental bandwidth didn't extend to building a clothes rack from these components
These are the same bits of PVC pipe I've used to build an embroidery frame, a niddy noddy, an adjustable four selvage loom and a clothes rack. But right now, mourning brain simply can't rise to the occasion.
So I cut my losses and ordered a spring tension rod to install over the washer and dryer, to dry clothes and save energy. Sometimes simple is better than clever.
Today the house cleaners came and I spent time in the library browsing
We had a time talking about Irene, and the celebration of life probably happening in her house in October.
It occurred to me that when I die there won't be local people to involve in a similar event, since I've outlived most of my friends.
So Handsome Son and I arranged that when I die, he'll come into this blog to announce it, and conduct an online celebration of my life for anyone who wants to take part.
I did this for Handsome Partner, private simple cremation, then online celebration and people from many countries took part and were pleased to have the chance.
He also asked that they plant daffodils in his memory, or another perennial if daffodils didn't work where they lived.
So I'm hereby doing the same. Please plant any spring or summer bulbs you like to remember me.
There, arrangements complete!
I don't plan on doing all this any time soon, but Be Prepared!
Meanwhile even in sadness I just can't not laugh, so here's a couple of offerings for you
So there we are !
Happy day everyone, we're all such tiny specks of light in the universe, may as well be happy
