I was just thinking today of my friend Donny Miceli, who died of childhood leukemia at the age of 7. I wondered what it would be like to be Donny's mom or dad. There would be sadness of course, and the devastating feeling that something was missing that should be there. Would there be guilt? How could they carry on, knowing that there was a high school graduation, wedding, etc. that they should have attended but weren't? I don't recall if Donny had siblings but if he did, how would they have felt growing up without him?
A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
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#12Context: This is remembering his daughter, Rebecca. (2008-2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_A._Meyer#:~:text=In%20201...
I came across the new CSS logo and thought the color looked about right (it's rebeccapurple), and ended up reading Eric's blog as a result.
Eric Meyer's blog post about why it should be called 'rebeccapurple' - see https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/
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#13This is one of those moments where, thanks to the internet, you catch a glimpse of another persons world. It gives some perspective.
I'm worried this will come across as cavalier and non-serious, but your comment reminded me a lot of ... yes, a comedy skit: Bo Burnham's White Woman's Instagram, in which he ostensibly makes fun of clichéd social media content, only to completely whip you about by briefly interrupting the cheese with the character's heartfelt post about living with her mother's death, perhaps the reason she needs the escapism of her online identity. And after it all you realize he told her entire life story in a series of comedy vignettes. I'm not ashamed to say I watched it in the right sort of mood and it moved me to tears (having lost a parent).
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#14From a Japanese song Kurumi
If only time could wash everything away, 時間が何もかも洗い連れ去ってくれれば
a life would be truly easy 生きる事は実に容易い
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#15I know how you feel. Tomorrow is my late son's ninth birthday.
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#16Context: This is remembering his daughter, Rebecca. (2008-2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_A._Meyer#:~:text=In%20201...
Eric Meyer's blog posts about his daughter Rebecca - see https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/rebecca...
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#17Life’s greatest, least rewarding challenge; continuing to live when a loved one cannot.
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#18Reading this, sitting next to my 6 year old son, my ears tear up and I’m reminded to cherish every moment. Truly saddened by these kinds of stories and just how quickly it could happen to any of us.
Just thinking about it gives me very strong anxiety. I had to sit next to my daughter, she's sleeping and breathing.
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#19People say time heals all wounds but sometimes there’s simply not enough time left to heal certain wounds.
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#20Life’s greatest, least rewarding challenge; continuing to live when a loved one cannot.
To put that in context, when my grandparents were born, a typical family had around four children, and one in four children did not live to the age of five.
It is sort of crazy to think of what it would be like to grow up in that world.