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This year tragic circumstances (not just or even primarily the quake) seem to be claiming a lot of people at 2 degrees of separation to me*.
I guess I'm just more sensitive to it because of my family's own losses this year, but each one is like a little blow to me as well. The lines that connect us all are drawn taut right now.
At any given time in any given place on the planet there are people who are grieving. It's one of those things we just abstract away to get on with life. Right now more and more people I care about are grieving. That's a lot harder to abstract away**.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm thinking of you all, out there. Take care.
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*Counting me as 0 - I know some people count being adjacent as 0 in which case this is a lot of people at 1 degree from me
**It may just be one of those things you have to face as you get older - the odds of it happening to someone you know - for any given it - go up. Sooner or later you have to deal.
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Aside: My mother just called - she's not too distressed so the helicopter accident yesterday can't have been my uncle. I can stop holding that little breath.
I guess I'm just more sensitive to it because of my family's own losses this year, but each one is like a little blow to me as well. The lines that connect us all are drawn taut right now.
At any given time in any given place on the planet there are people who are grieving. It's one of those things we just abstract away to get on with life. Right now more and more people I care about are grieving. That's a lot harder to abstract away**.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm thinking of you all, out there. Take care.
~~~
*Counting me as 0 - I know some people count being adjacent as 0 in which case this is a lot of people at 1 degree from me
**It may just be one of those things you have to face as you get older - the odds of it happening to someone you know - for any given it - go up. Sooner or later you have to deal.
~~~
Aside: My mother just called - she's not too distressed so the helicopter accident yesterday can't have been my uncle. I can stop holding that little breath.
