Gervase, sorry to hear about your Grandmother's passing, but I'll bet she smiled at your great sense of humour and irony.

For me, it is a natural, this time of year, to think of passings etc., simply because that is what is going on all over with our Earth Mother in the Northern Hemisphere with leaves dying and dropping to the ground, smart birds flying to warmer climes, the ground growing cold and hard, unfertile at least to the eye. I also think a lot of older people just get weary of the harshness of winter, with Persephone's hanging out elsewhere *smile* and so, take their leave before it really settles in.

Clinton and Morticia thank you for those poems. Quite beautiful.

Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts. It is indeed a day for remembrance of veterans and others, too.

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