Peace to you Ginger.
Thank you Zen.
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Peace to you Ginger.
Thank you Zen.
When a star has been added to the firmament, why does it seem the light has dimmed so much?
I am so sorry, buffistas. As others said better, Ginger was the Adult in the room, and I too remember her calm counsel during the Tokyo tsunami.
Sorry. It's Hebrew. It's what you say when you get the messege of somebody's death. Of accepting the reality of it, even when you can't understand why it had to be and when you can't see how this new change to the world may have anything goid and right abiut ut, when all you can feel is the loss and the wrongness if it all.
We did a lot of flailing around. Ginger never flailed. Not even in her own struggle.
I'm just numb, you guys. I know I'll cry; I cried last night, and earlier today. But I'm just fucking numb.
I was once flying back from somewhere (I don't even remember where), and my flight back stopped through Atlanta airport. Ginger offered to come by and do dinner with me, but I declined because there just wasn't quite enough time in between flights to leave the airport and come back.
But then I got to meet her in DC and again in SF.
When I was confused and angry about Shari getting declined on her first attempt at getting back on a liver transplant list, Ginger was one of two people (Brenda being the other) who reached out to me backchannel and helped me to see the truth -- that Shari was in fact secretly an alcoholic who was drinking herself to death.
It would be a couple more years before I found the wherewithal to actually end the relationship, but I will be forever grateful to both Ginger and Brenda for their stern but gentle help in seeing the ugly truth.
Fuck. Tonight I will grieve and rage. Tomorrow I will pull my socks up and go about my business as she would, I think, want me to. But fuck.
I will miss you, Ginger.
I don't have any socks! I don't even know where my socks are! Argh.