Since I shared a few days ago that I have not been active here as I dealt with the imminent death of my brother, I thought I'd share now – at the risk of too much sharing – that my brother died this morning.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wendinoakland Thanks for asking about me. I feel much pain and have felt it for some time now as my brother passed through this long suffering. I've learned with grief, that one just has to let it happen when it happens, when it washes over us, and try to be gentle with oneself. I'll keep trying!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

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[pollinators@epicure.social]

@wdlindsy.

[lupus_blackfur@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

Wow...

All the folks mentioned in your memoriam seem like lovely people I would have benefitted from knowing.

My heart (and the tear in my eye your memoriam wrought) go out to you and to all of them.

[the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy

Thank you for sharing your moving reflection on your brother Philip's life and what he meant to you. As you say, "Life is a precious gift, and we must live it while it is given to us." May you gain strength from your knowledge of the love that connected you with your brother, including all the difficulties that come with every relation. This love still connects you with him even now. Sending good thoughts your way.

[debr@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy ️

[wizardbear@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy So sorry for your loss. Your heartfelt 'in memoriam' is a beautiful and touching statement. Wishing you a future of all good things. It helps to remember the best parts of a life lost, but grief hurts in any event.

[susan60@aus.social]

@wdlindsy

My condolences William. That was a beautiful & touching obituary. I hope that writing it gave you some comfort.

[runrichrun@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
Thank you for sharing these remembrances and thoughts. Very sorry for your loss. Condolences to you and all those around you who share in your brother's loss and are in mourning. May the good memories and love comfort you.

[bodling@deacon.social]

@wdlindsy You'd think that, as it happens more often now, we would somehow get used to it. Or at least have accumulated better tools to do the internal work of mourning.

[danetteb@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy I’m so sorry for loss. How difficult to lose a sibling.

[teresa_athome@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy I’m sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your memories.

[godfrey642@aus.social]

@wdlindsy
As always your words are magnificently full and appropriate. Brimming with love for your brother and those dear to him in his life.
I am absolutely convinced that these profound forms of love never die.
"Life is a precious gift and we must live it while it is given to us". So your gift to Philip is to do just that. To the full; as a way of honouring him

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Pollinators Thank you so much.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lupus_blackfur Thank you. I appreciate your kindness.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@the_roamer Thank you so much, and for your beautiful summation of what life is about. I'm thinking this morning of a statement made by Jacqui Lewis, a pastor in New York City. She says,

“Love. Period. Everything else is commentary.”

That strikes me as so true, so simple. And I love how it's deeply rooted in Jewish tradition, too, with Hillel's statement,

"'What is hateful to you, do not to your neighbou'r: that is the whole Torah, while the rest is the commentary thereof."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@DebR Thank you so much.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@WizardBear Thank you for your kindness.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Susan60 Thank you so much. Yes, for me, writing is often therapeutic. It allows me to take what is inside me and put it outside, on paper (as it were — on the computer screen). Doing that helps externalize feelings and put them into perspective, I find, and helps organize ideas.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@RunRichRun Thank you so much. I'm very grateful to you.