Comments on: FYITE, World

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:40:00 +0000

I’m so sorry.
And I’m a Leo, so I’d draw a parallel to my own circumstance as if that might help or be even remotely relevant, but have moved the resulting “paralytic effects of failed logic” treatise elsewhere in hopes that I’ll absorb it myself, one day.
Still: Is his wife able to eat, drink, breathe w/o being directed? Is someone taking care of that? Etiquette can be tossed out with logic: distress requires order, then help, then consolation.

Your tweets are brilliant, and inspire me to relative liveliness. I hope you’re well attended, with someone to nudge you along so you can nudge them along and start the don’t-think-just-do reconstruction in aberrant void.

The family may come to accept that everything = antagonistic x wrong. Disproofs work. You just might have to fake it, for a while. (Gads, that sounds flippant when I put on my London or Newcastle ears. Out here, in SF, from a wee battered post-powerhouse, flippant= soul-baring.)

With sympathy,

By: BlissfulGirl

BlissfulGirl — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:53:20 +0000

I don’t know you, but reading this post just gave my heart a serious squeeze so I’m going to take your advice and go and squeeze the people I love today too.

Thank you for sharing … and consider yourself squeezed by a stranger.

By: katesnowbird

katesnowbird — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:41:47 +0000

Well you are doing a superb job of keeping the funny going on twitter. I’m so sorry to read of your friend’s trauma. Thoughts and prayers.

By: Steve Whitaker

Steve Whitaker — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:03:09 +0000

I’m sorry – I’m so sorry.

By: Melodi/ungraceful

Melodi/ungraceful — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:15:45 +0000

I am so very sorry for your S and his family, friends.

By: bailey

bailey — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:26:50 +0000

i’m so sorry. if there’s anything you need let me know. i wish you, your friend and his family the best.

By: @schuztler

@schuztler — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:35:48 +0000

I have been wrestling with what to say since i read this post earlier today. Have followed you for a few weeks on twitter (thanks to @frostinglickr) and have enjoyed your maniacal sense of humor.

To read this raw, open prose is a jarring wake up from the silly banter on twitter. I’d love to say I’m sorry but it presumes so much familiarity that it seems vacant. I’d love to say something supportive, but again it would feel contrived. So all I am left with is this: Thank You.

Thank you for sharing this. Thank you for allowing all of us twits on twitter to see this other side of your life. Thank you for reminding us to hold our people close. Thank you for poking me in the eye and making me read something that made me both uncomfortable and grateful at once.

By: Muriel

Muriel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:45:23 +0000

There isn’t much to say, so I’ll just emoticon it: =(
It’s never easy, these lives we say goodbye to.

By: Reba723

Reba723 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:10:39 +0000

Justine, I am so sorry. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your friend.

Reba

By: emma

emma — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:38:16 +0000

My heart goes out to S, his family, and you. I hope writing about it and sharing it is cathartic. I, too, have heard it said that it is. I hope never to discover the truth first hand.

And humor is one of the best tools to helps us, at any time, stand up when all we want to do is melt into a puddle of grief and wail at all that’s criminally unfair.