 | | 2013-08-28 02:37
From blog The Secondhand Years
And the leaves that are green turn to brown
Death has been on my mind this week. There's a catchy opener... A friend's mother died recently, followed only a matter of weeks later by his father. He dropped off some of his mum's 1960-70s costume jewellery which he thought I might like, and a little 1960s Pyrex dish. We were talking about losing parents. He said that he used to see himself as a buffer between the generations, his parents at one end of life's spectrum and his kids at the other, while he was firmly planted in the middle. And now, the space at the far end is empty, and waiting to be filled by... us. A sobering thought. My mum, who is 89, has...
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