Wednesday Reads: Conveyance of Jello
Posted: March 27, 2019 Filed under: just because 31 Comments
Ra travels through the underworld.
I thought I was ready to come back, but I’m not…I feel myself going through the motions, driving and waking up and so forth. But there is a blandness about it, like the packs of vanilla Jello pudding that overwhelms the pantry, pudding that was meant for my mom…
You see she was unable to swallow pills, because of the varices veins in her esophagus…she took her medicine on a conveyance of Jello. My dad, thinking she would be around longer than a week after being put on hospice, purchased so many packages of Jello. So many.
It is all there, no one will eat it.
It remains there.
He will not get rid of the fucking Jello.
And I see it. Like I see everything, for the first time…in my life, without you Mama. And I cannot face this. I’m not ready.
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I wish we could lessen your pain and grief. I don’t know how much it ultimately helps but we empathize and sincerely desire to be a comfort to you. I think that I speak for this entire community when I say that we love you and share your sadness.
You speak for me Ron.
I love you so much, JJ. You’ve lost the woman who brought you into the world. Allow yourself to grieve. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
You also speak for me, Ron. Grief can be so excruciatingly painful – please remember to take care of you with the same love and tenderness you gave your mother. ❤️
Those are my feelings too. Thank you. We love you JJ. XOXO
Well said, Ron. It does capture how I feel. Please take care JJ! ❤
Ron speaks for me also. My heart aches for you.
Lord, yes. I sort of forgot about that. The food was the worst. My mother had casseroles people had brought her, still in the fridge. I couldn’t bear to throw anything away either. Throwing the food away was almost worse than the funeral. I finally had to ask someone else, after about twenty years had gone by, and I knew I didn’t remember what was in the boxes, to go through it for me so I wouldn’t remember, and do the throwing out for me of the things without obvious value.
Like everyone here, I wish we could all sit with you. Or at least figure out how to send you edible dinners.
…or hold you tight so you could fee our love supporting you.
Or hold you tight so you could feel our love.
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Your comments strike me near. I hope you will keep them in your journal of writing.
I’m so sorry, JJ. I’m sending my love and reminding you to be gentle and good to yourself.
Donate the Jell-O to a food bank.
Lookie buried way way down in the article:
:But it wasn’t until Democrats took control of the House in January that the chamber passed a law approving the additional money.”
But it’s “Congressional” dithering. Uh-huh.
Another entry under “What Liberal Media?”
God, this is all just straight out of 1930s Nazi visions of the ideal world. Smiling blondes on top of the world, subhuman brown people gone by any means necessary, handicapped people don’t exist (and if they do, ve haff vays of dealing with that).
The part I just cannot fathom is that the movie is being replayed before the other one even faded from living memory!
(Some) humans are idiots
Or cowards.
This made me think of Betsy “Ilse Koch” Devos.
I have recently shifted my beliefs about the existence of hell…I am thinking that we may need to create own for Betsy Devos.
Cruella DeVos
We’ll have to see if this passes the Senate. Not holding my breath.
Love this woman!
She is just so astronomically *good*. The most competent, charismatic person who could be running for Prez. I think very highly of Harris and Warren, but Abrams is a country mile ahead of everybody.
God, I wish she was running. God, I wish the Democrats had been smart enough to join in behind her and she was the only one running.
And then we could actually focus on piping the kakistocracy into the sewage treatment plant where it belongs.
I love her. I supported her in Georgia and will support her if she run for National office.
Abrams is great.
I hope she runs for Senate. We need more voices like hers in the Senate
GDP revised downward for 2018 as U.S. economy shows more signs of slowing
yeah. and this one ain’t gonna be pretty. We’re going to see farm bankruptcies like the 80s… only politician with a plan to take care of that is Elizabeth Warrren too … woman’s got a policy for everything!
At first I wasn’t thinking much of Warren, but lately I’ve been more and more impressed. She’s the only one so far with detailed policies.
Ya think? Also, look at the reporter’s use of “outsized role” for women and black voters.