Comments - On mourning a public figure - The Ark2024-03-29T01:43:42Zhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2426069%3ABlogPost%3A179820&xn_auth=noHello Pen. I was seven also w…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2018-01-15:2426069:Comment:1796302018-01-15T20:37:59.984ZNatureJunkiehttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Robin
<p>Hello Pen. I was seven also when JFK died and I absorbed the same realizations about it. I can't say I grieved for him at seven but I sensed the grief of most of the adults around me, even school teachers weeping. As an adult, I find assassination deeply offensive and I grieve after all of them.</p>
<p>Hello Pen. I was seven also when JFK died and I absorbed the same realizations about it. I can't say I grieved for him at seven but I sensed the grief of most of the adults around me, even school teachers weeping. As an adult, I find assassination deeply offensive and I grieve after all of them.</p> Howdy NatureJunkieGreetings f…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2018-01-09:2426069:Comment:1795262018-01-09T23:57:08.128Zpendragonhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/pendragon
<p>Howdy NatureJunkie<br/>Greetings from Not Europe</p>
<p>I can understand that. I was about seven years old on November 22 1963. I never met the man but I was devastated because I somehow realized that something irreparable had happened. I still grieve.</p>
<p>Howdy NatureJunkie<br/>Greetings from Not Europe</p>
<p>I can understand that. I was about seven years old on November 22 1963. I never met the man but I was devastated because I somehow realized that something irreparable had happened. I still grieve.</p> Blanche, I had to Google Alge…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2018-01-09:2426069:Comment:1797272018-01-09T05:16:05.530ZNatureJunkiehttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Robin
<p>Blanche, I had to Google Algernon Blackwood. I'll definitely be downloading and reading some of his stuff soon. Thanks for the reference. The dead-before-you-discovered-them-sadness--I felt that way about Eva Cassidy.</p>
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<p>I deeply appreciate your understanding, Amy. I've been visiting Sue Grafton's Facebook page and I see that I'm not the only stranger in her life who's mourning her. I was thinking yesterday that my intersection with Sue Grafton lasted almost as long as the entire…</p>
<p>Blanche, I had to Google Algernon Blackwood. I'll definitely be downloading and reading some of his stuff soon. Thanks for the reference. The dead-before-you-discovered-them-sadness--I felt that way about Eva Cassidy.</p>
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<p>I deeply appreciate your understanding, Amy. I've been visiting Sue Grafton's Facebook page and I see that I'm not the only stranger in her life who's mourning her. I was thinking yesterday that my intersection with Sue Grafton lasted almost as long as the entire time John Lennon was alive, and it was more than half of my life. John got you through your mother's cancer, Sue got me through my mother's cancer, as well as a lot of other bad shit. What an odd and beautiful gift to use your art to comfort the hearts of strangers so outside your knowing. I envy that about them. </p> Not loopy at all. Don't kid y…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2018-01-07:2426069:Comment:1796272018-01-07T14:54:42.474ZBlancheNoEhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/BlancheNoE
<p>Not loopy at all. Don't kid yourself. From my own experience there is most likely a solid reason. Possibilities ?</p>
<p>1.) You might actually be related to Sue or John. Maybe not first cousins but we now know from science that like-genetics make for like-minds. 2.) A hardwired connection from childhood that's so obvious that we can't see it. John or Sue may have been playing, or being read during a milestone event in your life with yourself alone or a loved one. 3.) We are all really the…</p>
<p>Not loopy at all. Don't kid yourself. From my own experience there is most likely a solid reason. Possibilities ?</p>
<p>1.) You might actually be related to Sue or John. Maybe not first cousins but we now know from science that like-genetics make for like-minds. 2.) A hardwired connection from childhood that's so obvious that we can't see it. John or Sue may have been playing, or being read during a milestone event in your life with yourself alone or a loved one. 3.) We are all really the same person and we're (hopefully) drawn to the best of the best of our attributes and we feel like a very good part of us has been vaporized.</p>
<p> I could go on and ON and ON but my point is: Nope. Not loopy. You *did* lose a loved one after all. I didn't leave the house for 3 days when Lennon was killed because my face was swollen shut from crying because he and his mates sang me through my mother's cancer and long, slow death. After reading my first Algernon Blackwood story and looking him up, I cried for an hour after finding out he died 14 years before I was born because I knew there wouldn't be more new material from him. Okay, maybe it *is* loopy and you *are* loopy but if so, I am totally loopy with you.</p>