Happy because I just bought tickets to go see Brandi Carlile at the Troubador on January 23. Woot! And I just got a new computer. Double Woot!
Sad because Hawk’s grandfather, Arthur, passed away last night. He’d been declining in health for a long time, and when we saw him last Tuesday (which would be the last time we saw him) he was shockingly thin and not very responsive, almost like he was just disappearing. When I met him ten years ago, he was 75, but still full of stories and jokes (which he told over and over and over), and was very charming. But when they closed the family business a few years ago, he just wilted. He considered his life over, and proceeded to withdraw. He was really never the same after that. Then Eileen, Hawk’s grandmother, died last May, and he really started the sharp decline after that.
So I’m sad that the Arthur I knew and loved is gone, but that really happened a few years ago. I’m glad for him that he could finally let go, because he was done, there was nothing left for him.
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