Reader: Oh Dear Jesus God have Mercy

Monday, March 30, 2009

Oh Dear Jesus God have Mercy

I will explain later why many families had made the last 3 weeks of my life... challenging. For now, I leave you only this:

A preamble to the photograph I mean to post about the burial.

More on that later.

8 comments:

Avitable said...: Your family is still making your life challenging?; March 30, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Catherine said...: Anticipating the rest of the story, to paraphrase the dear departed Paul Harvey.; March 31, 2009 at 4:02 AM
sybil law said...: Geez.
:(; March 31, 2009 at 10:18 AM
LizLSB said...: These people must be stopped.; March 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Dagny said...: ugh. Is it wrong for me to say that people causing you harm and sadness need to go away?

I'm sorry. :(

xoxo; March 31, 2009 at 1:57 PM
nightfly said...: I hope the sunshine finally comes around for you, Nina. Be well...; March 31, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Kate P said...: Mercy, Lord, and peace for Nina.; April 2, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Anonymous said...: Hello. And Bye.; March 2, 2010 at 10:43 PM

Who are these people?

Bibi - God bless the guy who gets Bee. I can't even think of anything obnoxious to say about her. She can eat pasta without gaining weight, she can run the ridges at Gertrude's Nose with no fear, and she is by miles the best climber of all of us. She's going to Kili with us. Hell, she'll be leading.
Buzz Elder Brother. Cross me at your peril.
Jib computer wizard, entrepreneur, stand-up comedian, stand-up guy I can count on to catch a movie and hold hands in the dark without it having any meaning whatosever. Every woman needs a man like Jib.
Joe - locquacious, flirtatious, 40-something hiking buddy - also, ex-manfriend of Pax.
Larry, WPITW - climber, hiker, badass (not in the good way, either). At a given moment, at least half of us are not speaking to him.
Liam - My nephew, whose favorite words are "noing," "Bobby," "dumptruck," "job-site" and "Daddy." He also says "obstreperous" "pulchritudinous" and "Nina" upon request.
Merry - Australian BFF spends the summers on a yacht, nannying for a celebrity couple with two children. She lives in a brownstone and she has a chauffeur. And we have no idea who she works for.
Newsy has been my friend for about 22,000 hours. Or more. I don't have a calculator. She has about 3423% more professional and personal commitments than I do, and yet she still finds time to think about me. I find this astonishing. If you knew her, you'd be astonished, too.
Pax - climber, hiker, corporate warrior, used to date Joe. Sticks by Larry in spite of his horribleness. None of us understands this.
Skatey- he rides a skateboard. He can dance. He can throw a frisbee and he's not bad at karaoke, either.
Sri - Bengali princess who, aside from kicking my ass at climbing, and aside from being a smokin' hiker, brought down the evil empire of Larry and also once told me that "even girls' are turned on my breasts." Also never turns down "one more round."
Supajewie - Long distance drinking buddy, just about the only person I know who "gets it". And no, she's not Jewish. It's a long story.
Tex - is what happens when you take a normal man, add alcohol, subtract common sense and tact, and then buy him another drink.

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