Posted by Pikes Peak 14115 on March 16, 2026, 7:30 pm
Mil Joan died yesterday morning. I was told about ten minutes before my church service began. It was maybe the most difficult service for me. I loved her.
She went to the hospital Saturday night complaining of chest pains. Sunday morning she was lucid and apparently ok. Literally in the middle of a word, she suddenly slumped. No warning.
There are moments in my mind when they zip up the body bag and she is gone. Recurring vision I can't shed. Stunning reality that I will never see her again in this life and world. It's a haunting nightmare. She died in the exact same room where my mother died in 2003, and on her husband's birthday. She was 100.
Last night on the way home from league, I saw somebody's kitty that had been run over on the road. Hit me terribly hard at this time. Unbelievable fragility of life.
The Peak this morning showing after effect of the blizzard. Across the Canadian Zone, about 8000 to 10,000 feet altitude, the brunt of snow with wind fell. Massive hoarfrost covered every coniferous evergreen tree in that belt. Below it is mostly snow free. Above timberline on the peak and Almagre, the ground was scrubbed hard by 100+mph wind.
Somebody said the temperature went from 75 to 25 faster than a speeder suddenly seeing a State Trooper.
Irreverently I quick improvised a new mockery song. The Felon's a Disgrace. Spike Jones; in your memory!
You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
Re: Monday Monday
Posted by AayJay on March 17, 2026, 10:35 am, in reply to "Monday Monday"
Sorry for your loss. I'm reading various Facebook posts about life in one's 70's. There are hard truths that we all experience as we get older. One of those is the loss of family and friends. The circle of the living tends to get smaller. Yet, in a very real sense, we are the lucky ones. Lucky that we'll all die because we all lived. Take a look...
We are all going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place, but who will in fact never see the light of day, outnumber the grains of sand of Arabia. Certainly, those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds, it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder.
Great observations
Posted by Skye on March 17, 2026, 11:38 am, in reply to "Re: Monday Monday" Valued Poster
We are lucky indeed.
Still, I feel an obligation to leave a better world, not worse, to the lucky ones who follow us.
Speaking of aging, I have found that the hot tub is a wonderful thing for the aging body... a jet for every body part! Ahhhhh
Your observation about aging
Posted by Trish on March 17, 2026, 11:26 am, in reply to "Re: Monday Monday" Admin
is spot on. In the last few years it seems like many people I know, and some younger than me, have left this world with little holes no one else can fill.
Pikes, my thoughts are with you
Terribly sorry to hear that
Posted by greenman on March 17, 2026, 9:38 am, in reply to "Monday Monday" Valued Poster
My condolences, Pikes. SAY ‘NO’ TO WAR! RESIST!
A tough day for sure.
Posted by jacque on March 17, 2026, 12:35 am, in reply to "Monday Monday" Valued Poster
Thanks for sharing that. Sharing how we reflect on loss and grief is way to strengthen connections with others.
I appreciate your unique perspective and the way you explain it for you.
The satirical musical commentary was great too.
I'm reminded of a few musical social/political satirists like Tom Lehrer, Steve Allen, and more I heard as a youngun.A Jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.
... And many thanks for the masters in skill for setting our standard of work to instill.
So sorry
Posted by Skye on March 16, 2026, 10:16 pm, in reply to "Monday Monday"
My sympathies, Pikes. The loss of a loved one is never easy. What a full life she had! It sounds like she was relatively healthy up to the end? I would much prefer to go that way when my time comes, but we never know. May the best memories of her stay with you always.
I am so very sorry to read this. My deepest condolences.
Posted by Sia on March 16, 2026, 9:01 pm, in reply to "Monday Monday" ADMIN
How fortunate for her to have been so deeply loved and to have lived to see the other side of 100. We should all be so blessed!
on March 16, 2026, 7:30 pm
