Gearing Up

August 26, 2010

My mother passed away late yesterday afternoon. She was 83.

I noticed, as I scrambled this morning to get things done so I can go down to Chelsea to help my brother and sister deal with things, that after the initial shock and sadness and the sort of blank inability to process details (okay, I'm sure I wasn't the only one), that now we're all gearing up. We're pulling together when we're meeting and where, what needs to be done and how. Plans are being made.

I suspect that's a part of how we deal with death and how we move on. By moving on, by taking care of all the life details that have to be dealt with.

As my friend Erica commented recently on Facebook, quoting from somebody, Robert Frost?, that the only thing they have learned about life is that it goes on.

Talk to you later.

Mark