Comments on: Loss

By: Kafka-esque « Stumbling on melons

Kafka-esque « Stumbling on melons — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:06:27 +0000

[...] had a quiet Easter. I missed S*. Easter was a time when we quite often caught up with each other, and some of those occasions [...]

By: Recently « Stumbling on melons

Recently « Stumbling on melons — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:02:05 +0000

[...] in the week, D and I drove north of Newcastle for Sq/x‘s funeral. It was held in a church where S*s parents have worshiped for many [...]

By: wanderer

wanderer — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:19:26 +0000

Sorry sounds trite but I am.

By: marcellous

marcellous — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:03:37 +0000

Victor, it’s not just the alone but the folly of it all and the signs that with the benefit of hindsight seem all too obvious and wondering if some kind of intervention could have stopped things coming to this.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:49:39 +0000

Any loss is sad but one suffered alone seems especially unsettling.

By: marcellous

marcellous — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:43:54 +0000

Thanks, M-H and Tim. I always stumble in offering condolences because anything I can say seems inadequate. I now realise that adequacy is not the point and the simplest words can still offer some kind of comfort.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:41:12 +0000

condolences

By: M-H

M-H — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:17:41 +0000

A sad story. I’m sorry for your loss. Bits of our pasts keep falling away, and I’m sure we’ll ever get used to it.