This is going to be a quick post tonight. I had a very good day today and would like to talk about it right now. But I am sad. Two people I knew from my days hosting the AOL Widows and Widowers chat room passed away recently.
I had a wonderful day with RQS, and I was able to being up the issue of being both Mario and Marian with her. She's not yet completely sure how she feels, but she wasn't in a hurry to give me the bum's rush. When I eventually left her this evening, I drove home very carefully, as they were spreading salt for tomorrow morning's expected snow. In NYC limits, they spread enough salt in some places that I first thought some other substance (think of loose gravel) had been dumped on the roads. In Westchester, they had only started to spread salt, and I was stuck behind a salter truck for a few minutes before I was able to get around him and get home while I was safe to drive.
When I finally made it home, I read a text from a long ago girlfriend telling me that two people had died. One I met on a date (it was only curiosity), and we became friends for a couple of years before she retired and moved to Florida. Her death was sudden and unexpected. If I lived in Florida, I'd have driven to her services and the shiva afterwards. But in New York, I don't even have her daughter's address to send my condolences. The other lady I only met at W/W gatherings, but she was a good person for whom I wished the best. With her, cancer finally took her life, and she will be missed by many.
So, instead of feeling happy for the good day I had, I feel sad because of the message that ended my evening.
