Prometheus 6

I'm off that age, too. I'm sorry for your loss.

 Take care.

This is something many do not speak of publicly. But I now can see that place, though I am not there myself. How do the people who deal with this BEST, do so?

I can stiil recall the day when my 90 year-old paternal grandfather, who lived to be 92, looked me in the eye and said, "Boy, you don't ever want to grow old."

I was sitting across from him in what had been his wife of 65 years old rocking chair. I thought about what he meant for a moment or two. Then I realized that he was not talking about the aging process. He was talking about the fact that as you grow older all the people you love eventually die and you are left alone.

He had buried his wife, four children, all of his siblings (seven girls) and all but one of his first cousins. There was literally no one left alive who had known him as a child or a young man and father.

Spence:

It's easiest when there's nothing left unsaid or undone between you. And not having the habit of clinging is good too.

Eulogies are good. When my sister Linda passed, I had the idea of collecting something about her from everyone, weaving it into a narrative and delivering it with my emotion. With my father I didn't write anything down; I just spoke.

the down side of being in a large family is having so many people to mourn.

And the upside is having so many to mourn with. Holding you in The Light today, Friend.

I lost my father earlier this year.  My prayers for you and your family.