Doing laundry today, one load per day as the dryer is powerless and I have to spread my spun laundry to dry throughout my apartment! I chose today and the coming days as these are to be quite warm! In a way I’m using solar power! No?!
Last week was a busy one with a goodbye party hosted by Sarah and BJ for their departure and move to Switzerland this week; BJ goes later in August and we have a beer scheduled yet.And last week I also got my TV feet mounted on Saturday and on Thursday I picked up the replacement signal box from Shaw at Chinook at no charge! Then it had to be activated which took some time in the evening.
This with the help from Phil in Nanaimo BC, while in the morning at seven am I talked to Dahiem in Prince Edward Island who arranged the converter for me and also helped with my email password problems! Those call centre services are quite functional if it were not for the wait times later in the day.
Last Friday lunch with Herman, while last Tuesday I had been invited for Thomas’ eighty fifth birthday celebration at the Austrian club, for dinner. There was family, old Hungarian refugee friends from the 1954 revolution and local friends including myself. Old stories surfaced once we got started, with Thomas doing most of the recounting. And not to be missed, the Sanctuary Café at Knox was in full operation and Don treated me to coffee as we chatted for about an hour after the little midweek service.
Life has its surprises even at its very end and I am learning to see those as lessons to modify my established view and some long held assumptions, deepening my own understandings of human life’s processes.
Today I am recalling that one year ago tomorrow I flew to Schiphol to meet with my now late sister Els for our last goodbye. L! We met that week on the Wednesday and Thursday, with Friday being our day of final goodbye. We did have a good and meaningful exchange over those three days for which I’m very thankful, but that does not take away my sadness now.
Els and I were close at 21 months and shared many childhood memories and later experiences. I miss her more than I expected I would, showing that you don’t always know the quality of the bonds that hold you. I am still surprised by the intensity and extend of my feelings having lost my sister Els this year after our parting last August and her funeral later last November. Life has its surprises even at its very end and I am learning to see those as lessons to modify my established view. As well as some long held assumptions, deepening my own understandings of human life’s processes.