Stars All Seem To Weep

I didn't mean to make everyone sad with yesterday's post. I'm not depressed about it. Really. I am happy being independent and only having to worry about Spike. He's enough! ;)

Just sometimes, there are moments when I feel lonely. Who doesn't have them, though. It is part of life. I think I let it out yesterday because I was tired. Photoblog works as self-therapy.

Ready for some more?

My great uncle passed away after a long and painful battle with cancer this morning (Thursday). It wasn't unexpected but there was still that moment when I first heard my mom's voice and I knew what she was going to say that I was afraid to hear it.

It was a selfish thought, of course. Because he was in A LOT of pain and he is at peace now. I did not see him like this, the consensus was that it would be better if only immediate family spent time with him. He was heavily medicated to help with the pain and it seemed better to let him sleep.

My mom did visit him though since he was like a brother to her. My mom is an only child and when she was little, my grandparents moved in with my great-grandparents to help take care of my great-grandfather (who was in a wheelchair) and my grandmother's younger brothers. They weren't much older than she was and I think they spoiled her a little even when she was tagging along on their dates and ratting them out when they were in trouble. :)

I am glad that my mom and my cousins were able to say good-bye and tell him the things they wanted to say. Not everyone gets to do that. I have left things unsaid before with people who were important to me.

"All the things we took for granted
The words still live on in my head
All the times I took for granted
All the words I never said.

I think about you in the moonlit night,
And the stars all seem to weep.
When there's so much love to give,
There's never any time for sleep." ~Stars All Seem To Weep, Beth Orton

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