Saturday, March 13, 2004

I should be doing my taxes, so instead I'm reading the web.  This article I found via Fark caught my eye.  It's about children's movies.  One of the things that my daughter used to do when she was little was play make believe with her dolls.  We would over hear her describing the scenario for a particular session with these words, "pretend that this is [some girl's name] and her mother is dead. I remember questioning her once about why the mom had to be dead and not really getting an answer. I attributed it to the seemingly never ending stream of movies aimed at children where the mother, father or parents are dead or missing for one reason or another. I am acutely aware of these themes now.  Movies like Billboard Dad where the children scheme to find a new mom or wife for their single dad. 4:47:35 PM

"It's absurd. I don't feel any repulsion. I don't know - indifference. The only thing I know is that they've torn out my heart. And now I'm like a child of five years old. Now I've got to start everything again - becoming an adult all over again. " Comments from a newly widowed person after the sudden death of his wife in the bombings in Madrid. "When you bury a person, the pain is that it is the last moment when you have that person next to you and when the ceremony ends you hand that person over to God. You don't lose them, but you stop having them at your side through everything." I've felt that pain, and the "feelings of loneliness". 12:13:45 PM

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