Posts by Jackie Clark
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Stewart,
Bravo. Bravo. That's what I have been getting together in my head these past couple of days. It seems to me that the ever present threat of our mortality is what keeps us trying to live our best lives. As in, if time is limited, we had better make the most of it.
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Hard News: Merry Christmas, Blossoms, in reply to Danielle,
Yay! I was so worried about you all day yesterday and I expressed that to Jackson. I wanted to hurry home to see if there was news, but lo and behold, the iphone was whipped out, and miracle of miracles, you had already twittered. I loved technology at that point, I really did. Biggest of loves to you, and your lovely family. I am hoping that Teddy will get a little outing sometime in, say, January.
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Hard News: Merry Christmas, Blossoms, in reply to Russell Brown,
It's okay, love. You've had a very busy few weeks, what with one thing and t'other. Roll on January.
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Merry Christmas to you, you dear man. I would just like, once again, to tell you in particular, and this community at large, how very important you have all become to me. It's become a habit in my house, when I am going out (and I have a notoriously stay-at-home spouse) to tell him which social group I am convening with that particular day/evening, and which category the friends I am seeing fit in to. He doesn't remember who everyone is, but he understands the social groupings. Since the advent of the internet in our house, specifically, about 16 years ago, we've had various groups that I've belonged to. The most enduring ones are my Fat Ladies, the Big King Queens, and in the last 5 years, the PAS people. To wit, this was the conversation last night: "I'm going to the pub" "Who are you going with?" "Sacha and Jackson and Sofie" "Remind me?" "Public Address friends" "Ah, yes" and so it goes. My social life has always been a reasonably full one, and I once thought that after a certain age, I would never make new friends. How wrong I was. How delightfully wrong I was. So thank you, Russell. Thank you to everyone I've met in this wonderful community. You have enriched my life, and I look forward to a New Year, when those friendships continue to deepen. I also look forward to meeting more of you, in the not too distant future.
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I've been very lucky with the deaths I have witnessed, by and large, because it's not always beautiful, of course. For the person dying or the people surrounding them, or who have to deal with the fallout. I understand what you're saying - I just don't think it would be a very good thing.
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Hard News: Name That Food Blog, in reply to JacksonP,
Oil on skateboard? Dude!
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Actually, death can be a very beautiful thing, and the bearing witness to it can be liberating, euphoric even. When someone has been in pain, or when their body is tired of the struggle needed to keep all their organs going, there is a tangible lightness of being when they enter that period of time, be it seconds or minutes, before their heart finally stops. Or maybe that was just me.
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Speaking of fantastic houses, this one is in Wellington. I just liked the way it occupied it's space.
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Bart Janssen,
That is the first time I have ever heard anyone posit that death, and decay, are not a biological given. Interesting. I have always believed that all organisms decay and then die. Oranges, human beings - all one and the same as far as that goes. What you are saying is that, although cell death occurs, we don't need to die? No, I guess we don't. But I don't want to live in that world. Fuck, no.
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Bart Janssen,
we will reach a point where we can deal with pretty much every cause of death
Bart, I think this needs some further explanation. I'm not one for keeping us all alive for perpetuity. Death is a necessary, and unavoidable, part of life. N'est-ce pas ?
