So sorry, Kerry. Thank you for sharing all of this. I hope that healing and comfort keep you company, and Kiffen and all of the others who loved Mo and AJ--
It is very sad. But somehow extra sad for me (poor me!). So many family members so many in touch with each other, so many with stories that stretch sideways and back into the past and get retraced to a present.
Very different for me. One brother, one step-child, one wife. Wife's relatives exiles from Belarus who never quite adapted to America and are estranged since they've swallowed the Trump poison. Same with my one set of cousins, all successful and parochial at the same time. Even though I was friends with one who was living in Israel for a while while I was living in Switzerland. He also went down the right-wing sludge slide. Although, he did get on the front page of Israel's papers by performing the first female to male transexual operation in Israel. And then several years later tried to hide and disavow it.
So fascinating to read these rich earth-connected and ongoing sprawling family stories.
Your writing makes me wish I had the keen memory that you have for people and places and events and things. Though perhaps holding those observations and memories can be burdensome sometimes? The mundane and the larger-than-life life things form a web in your writing that I really appreciate. Thank you for sharing these things in your writing.
I am sorry for the losses you have experienced. And have a little regret that as I try to make LA my home again, you and Kiffen are no longer here. Our latter years are ones of surprising change.
I was looking for something trivial in my email and got hooked on your post, Kerry. I didn't need it. So sad. This is life. Needing a charger when you're grieving. We have to keep going. Bless you.
oh, my heart. I wish I'd had a chance to meet Mo, but I feel I knew her through you over the last 6 years. I can't imagine what AJs family is going through, even still.
Oh, I got to the part about lettuce on your teeth and I was laughing-crying. I'm so so sorry for AJ's family. Love the fox!
Oh, I got to the part about lettuce on your teeth and I was laughing-crying. I'm so so sorry for AJ's family.
So sorry, Kerry. Thank you for sharing all of this. I hope that healing and comfort keep you company, and Kiffen and all of the others who loved Mo and AJ--
It is very sad. But somehow extra sad for me (poor me!). So many family members so many in touch with each other, so many with stories that stretch sideways and back into the past and get retraced to a present.
Very different for me. One brother, one step-child, one wife. Wife's relatives exiles from Belarus who never quite adapted to America and are estranged since they've swallowed the Trump poison. Same with my one set of cousins, all successful and parochial at the same time. Even though I was friends with one who was living in Israel for a while while I was living in Switzerland. He also went down the right-wing sludge slide. Although, he did get on the front page of Israel's papers by performing the first female to male transexual operation in Israel. And then several years later tried to hide and disavow it.
So fascinating to read these rich earth-connected and ongoing sprawling family stories.
I didn’t even get into the politics, but they are wide and varied in our family and I’m not touching it. But nothing mattered but love.💚
Your writing makes me wish I had the keen memory that you have for people and places and events and things. Though perhaps holding those observations and memories can be burdensome sometimes? The mundane and the larger-than-life life things form a web in your writing that I really appreciate. Thank you for sharing these things in your writing.
I am sorry for the losses you have experienced. And have a little regret that as I try to make LA my home again, you and Kiffen are no longer here. Our latter years are ones of surprising change.
I was looking for something trivial in my email and got hooked on your post, Kerry. I didn't need it. So sad. This is life. Needing a charger when you're grieving. We have to keep going. Bless you.
oh, my heart. I wish I'd had a chance to meet Mo, but I feel I knew her through you over the last 6 years. I can't imagine what AJs family is going through, even still.
oh, kerry, i'm just now reading about AJ - how tragic and yes, inexplicable...mo's 'there are no answers, only now' ...big love to big family