departures

Long day yesterday helping with the memorial for a friend's brother. The reception was at here house. While the family was at services, her husband and I made several stops for money, groceries, drinks, ice, etc. etc. We had the house set up just in time for family and friends to start arriving. A death can sometimes have a very surreal effect on the psyche. Reality is changed in a way that is too fast to fathom when someone is suddenly gone without warning. One day they're here with you, the next they don't exist any more and there is the strange silence or void for a moment where someone once stood.

I suppose in a certain way we are all ghosts wondering around here.