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What’s Dead is Alive Again

Q – I keep responding to your posts & then they’re gone & mine just sit there, sticking out like a sore thumb !
This one was in regards to experiencing pain in the death of loved ones.
Now, sit still ! 😉

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

Yes indeed – that’s what tears & grieving are all about –
I wouldn’t want to experience life without even its most grave set-backs. Utopia doesn’t exist & if it did, we might not have been afforded the wisdom to develop empathy & compassion.

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:58 pm

Ooops, to your comment below, Q –

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:53 pm

If I were sent such a picture after death, I’d have a strong urge to draw a Groucho nose or Alfred E. Newman face on them ….& think of them smiling, happy & vital in life 😉

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:52 pm

Though I respect peoples’ choice of tradition, I can’t say I’d feel comfortable with that particular one, if it were with regard to my own kids – strikes me as fodder for early-in-life nightmares ….

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:46 pm

Oh my goodness, a girl after my own heart LOL !

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:37 pm

I agree that there are still some ridiculous ‘status symbols’ that are unfortunately alive & well (def. more so, in California) ….but I can remember even back in high school, some stigma for those born on the wrong side of the tracks : levels of elitism vis-a-vis some people, just because of the family they came from –
Blood lines & family legacy is now hardly ever a component of how we view others –
& the young will hopefully ‘come into their own’ in that sense –
I hold out a lot of hope for this generation of (esp. Liberal) youth ….

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:33 pm

He does sound as though he was gloriously well-adjusted – the concept of death best be approached that way, otherwise, it’d be a bit harder to live with –

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:27 pm

Finally, we’re here in the same zone, if not time-zone – allo, Kalima !

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:19 pm

LOL, Q !! Oh yeah, I’m sure that’s true ….

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:17 pm

Note the interesting photographic treatment in the background of the album cover once you click on it –

Blood, Sweat & Tears – And when I die ….

Embedding not allowed but a good soundtrack –

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 6:00 pm

LOL – that too !

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 5:13 pm

Hmmmm, to be re-‘membered’ that way – that’s mighty ….corniforting –
😀

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

Agree with everything you say – although (can I admit this here, since it’s a really um ‘private’ place) ?
I’d prob. enjoy being fitting-room attendant for jock straps

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 4:50 pm

Ewwww, that will forever affect the enjoyment with which I eat cornichons LOL !

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 4:48 pm

SHOES ! It should be about shoes & how our lives & life-altering decisions have been affected ….by our shoes ? 😀

btw : I’ve thoroughly enjoyed (in an off-kilter way) what this post conjured up ! (though I was SUPPOSED to be here working today) 😉

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 4:44 pm

The first part of your comment was so feisty & made me laugh – like a LiveStream of all the thoughts you went through 😆

I like the 2nd-to-last line about the shoes –
My mother gave me a leather patch years ago, etched with an old Indian proverb :
“May I judge no man until I have walked a mile in his moccasins”.

Believe it or not, that small token piece has served as a profound reminder to me many times in my life ….

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 4:42 pm

The concept of Dracula is definitely a juicy morsel – there are many parallels / metaphors for Dracula in our lives, but I won’t go into that now –
I especially liked the Nosferatu film –

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 4:09 pm

I can’t imagine the quality of life coroners must have –
Got to have a macabre sense of things to be able to do that, day in, day out & does rather change the simple act of shopping at a hardware store –
Same as gynecology : Me ? I could never have sex with a gynecologist ! & I mean that !
Imagine how clinical they must be & unromantic, when they see & delve in to that girlthang every day !! 😆

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 4:02 pm

I see a novel :
Death, by Alka Seltzer, on the Amtrak” –
😆

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:48 pm

Q – You opened up quite a can of worms with this post –

Gee, maybe that wasn’t the right way to put it ? 😆

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:45 pm

Gaaaaa hhhhhhh ! OMG !

I just, I just …..dunno what to say !! :eeek: & lol ?

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:44 pm

You’re 100% right – some people are too proud (is that it ? or ….) to receive simple human compassion & help –
& to be honest, I’m with you : had I been on the opposite side of that help, I might have retreated to do my thing, without letting anyone know –

Interesting revelation : I’m right there to dish out help, but would find it most uncomfortable to admit to needing it –
Complicated scenario ….

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:41 pm

LOL – but, pray tell, what IS a bath bomb ?

Sounds messy, albeit bubbly 😉

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:25 pm

Okay, an edit : 5 people – not enough room right now for 10

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:19 pm

Me too, someone I’d love to have a few beers with !

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:15 pm

Those 2 instances speak of an atrocious void in “the safety net’ you mentioned. Outrageous !
I would open my doors, set up beds, provide food etc., to up to 10 people at once, if anyone I knew (& trusted) was ailing & needed the comfort of a warm place & human nurturing.
Inconvenient ? Very slightly & not enough to be bothered about, compared to the value of the gift in the giving & the receiving –
These things are practically free & near-effortless to give.
I feel very sad for how alone these 2 women must have felt – it didn’t have to be that way ….

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:13 pm

See, now that’s where I lean ….(really !) – as long as what was left was a sense of wry, dark humor about the decision & its staging.
Doubt that I’ll actually leave that way, but damn it’s a delicious notion –

Let’s give them something to talk about ! :

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 3:06 pm

Dark comedy def. has its place – otherwise, some things could be indulged in a most heart-breaking way & I see that as ….unpractical.
Grieving is important, don’t get me wrong. But after that release, I believe in moving on. Moving on gets back to the equally important acknowledgment of life ….

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

I intend to !! & talk about perfect typecasting : Liberace !

» Posted By LiseLives On May 1, 2010 @ 2:51 pm