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What's New - June 30, 2008:
Woops, is it Monday already? Apologies for the late update; I was plumb tuckered out when I got home last night after a long day of travel. I won't pretend it was easy to face the desert after a week in the greenery, not to mention the apparently effortless exuberance of Mom's garden, but adjustment is underway.
Although I'm adjusting to more than just dry air and high altitude. Last week was intense. We made strawberry jam, chopped vegetables by the gallon, washed dozens of loads of dishes, talked and talked and talked. The family bonding was running in overdrive, with the funeral itself as the fulcrum of the week. You plan and arrange and dress up for the event, then there's this moment when a life is distilled into photos and songs and poems and stories, and after that you're a puddle that must gather itself back together and pretend to be a human again.
And now I keep going back to the last line of Roger's eulogy, which was a quote from a letter he once wrote: "Life is not a dress rehearsal." Yeah, man. The big night is right now, no matter where you happen to be, no matter what you're doing. No matter to what extent you still feel like that puddle.
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