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Post by ydderf on Dec 11, 2023 6:34:23 GMT -6
Thanks Cutter this is certainly becoming a good read
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Post by cutter on Dec 13, 2023 21:08:54 GMT -6
Thanks all. I have got to keep better track though! I messed up about the pigs. Patrick and Alice already have them earlier in the story. I'm going to go back and change that, because I want the interaction and teachable moment between Patrick and Delbert. Preppers are a stubborn lot. We're so far ahead of 90% of the rest of the population because we have eyes to see, that we don't always have ears to hear things we don't know. (Yes, that's an adaptation of a Bible quote.) I'm at least as guilty as the next prepper of a little too much pride and self assurance from time to time. It seems prudent to offer a gentle reminder that we always have more to learn, and sometimes that knowledge comes from the darndest places.
Working on both stories now, as often as the inspiration comes to me. Maybe I need to get my muse some white castles and Jolt cola. Never mind, she'd be insufferable...and gassy.
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Post by gipsy on Dec 13, 2023 21:14:00 GMT -6
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Post by cutter on Dec 13, 2023 21:18:23 GMT -6
Geez, Gipsy! Are you standing behind me, looking over my shoulder? My post was up all of 5 minutes before you replied! Thank you for that, by the way. I needed the pick me up. All of this Christmas stuff is hard.
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Post by feralferret on Dec 13, 2023 22:18:39 GMT -6
Cutter, you never know who is lurking around on the board. Gipsy and I both tend to pop up unexpectedly. One of the perks of being retired.
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Post by workhorse on Dec 13, 2023 22:27:22 GMT -6
Christmas and the reason we celebrate it are easy and wonderful. It’s the memories of Christmas and things that happen near Christmas that make it hard. Sometimes it seems like death and hurts happen around this time so that we take our minds off of the greatest gift and concentrate on them instead. It is a battle I have several times a year. Most of the time the pain is still there just that the copping seems somewhat easier.
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Post by gipsy on Dec 14, 2023 7:38:14 GMT -6
Been retired for a long time so I get lots of practice.
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Post by cutter on Jan 11, 2024 22:20:24 GMT -6
Sorry for the very late reply. Christmas hasn't been the same since God decided that my maternal grandmother had endured enough ill health and nonsense in this world, and called her home. That day was March 5, 2008. No language, perhaps not even God's language, has the words to express how much I miss her, or the great, gaping hole her absence has left in my life. No soul I have ever met, has understood me as completely as she did. She is the one person who could always intuitively say or do exactly what I needed to screw my head on straight, give me some perspective, and make me feel better. When she went home, I lost my one, only, perfect ally on this Earth. That said, I'm glad she's passed away. She is with God. She is no longer sick. Her aches and pains, and the heart that turned traitor on her, can no longer exact their terrible price from her. As it pertains to me, she's beyond caring about the goings on in my life. I am her only grandchild, and my life as it is now, would break her heart if she were here.
She was always the best of our family. I love my family, but she was far and away the best of us. Every day, and especially Christmas, will be lesser for me, because of her absence. The world is a lesser place without her, but of all the people I know, she is the most deserving of a place at God's side. She wasn't perfect, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Frankly, I could rarely tell the difference between her and perfect.
My soul is secure, so I know I'll have the chance. I intend to thank God personally, for blessing my Mommagran with peace, and sparing her from what this world, and I, have become.
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Post by feralferret on Jan 11, 2024 23:01:55 GMT -6
Cutter, I am sorry for your loss and difficulty coping with it. Please remember that just because your friends on this board are not physically there with you, they still care about you. Stay positive in the hope of eternal life in a better place than this.
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Post by cutter on Jan 12, 2024 22:44:19 GMT -6
Thank you. I'm coping and have made my peace; I just miss my best friend and second mother, and I won't even pretend to be sorry for being a little selfish.
We will all experience eternity; it's just a question of what that experience will be. I submit that heaven would suck without God and hell would be a nice place with God. It's God, not the place.
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Post by prepguy on Jan 18, 2024 6:59:26 GMT -6
Cutter, good story. I like the way it's going.
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