TheBanyanTree: The Area's Favorite Bartender

[Monique Colver]

It's obviously not written by one of us, but it serves its purpose, I
suppose. Obituaries are so hard to write. I don't want to do any myself, but
when someone dies I'm happy to do. Not happy. I mean, if someone were to
need one, it would not be a happy occasion, so of course I wouldn't want to
do it because it would mean the person was dead. And I would rather the
person would not be dead. I've started obituaries, several times, before the
person in question was actually deceased, when people said, "Better start on
that obituary," but I can't write an obituary when the person is alive, on
their way out the door (or portal, or what have you) but still a part of
this world. I can't do it until they're gone, and then I labor over it, not
wanting to do it wrong, or miss someone, or miss anything at all, because
it's the last word I have on the subject, and if I don't get it right, I
won't be able to change it. Well, I can, but it's rude to send everyone
amended and corrected obituaries after the person in question has been laid
to rest or let loose on the waves.

But I could think of lots of things about Dee that weren't included.

Monique

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:06 PM, auntiesash <auntiesash at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow.  It's so brief and...um...boring.  So not the Dee we knew.
>
> Thanks for finding this, Tom.
>
> I'm not sure if it makes it any more real though....
>
> xoxo
> sash
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Tom Smith <deserthiker2000 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> > Dee's Obituary:
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> >
> http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/02/03/community/obits/doc4b69c4824b719593614022.txt
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Everyone is from somewhere
> Even if you've never been there.
> So take a minute to remember
> The part of you that might be the Old Man calling me.
> - Jethro Tull
>



-- 
Monique Colver