I am feeling good today, as I write this.
I am not feeling depressed at this time.
But I just want to show you what I wrote on my calendar a few days ago.
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I started writing the days of remembrance, the dates of the deaths, of 8 people.
Plus, more than six million others.
I recorded a video about it:
I want to go ahead and give you the list, in case you do not want to watch the video.
Or, even if you do watch the video, I like it written out, as well.
This all started when I wrote on my calendar the dates of the deaths of my father and my brother.
The date for my father is the 27th of January, for my brother, the 28th of January.
Then, as I was writing all that, someone here at Daily Kos pointed out that the 27th of January is also this:
en.wikipedia.org/…
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, an attempt to implement its "final solution" to the Jewish question. 27 January was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.
After I looked that up, and thought about all that, I started thinking about the sequence of events, the chronological order of the days of remembrance I wanted to write on my calendar.
If I think about extended family, such as the Weigel family, the family of my first wife, Pam, I could write many more than eight names.
But I wanted to start with those deaths that affected me the most, and work my way out from there.
So, here are all the days of remembrance that I wrote on my calendar, in the order of when each person died:
- 16th of April, 1999, my mother, Eva, died.
- 27th of January, 2001, my father, Don, died.
- 11th of March, 2008, my first wife, Pam, died.
- 23rd of June, 2015, Tonia’s sister, Linda, died.
- 18th of June, 2016, my sister, Adonna, died.
- 18th of December, 2021, my brother’s wife, Brigitte, died.
- 28th of January, 2022, my brother, Brent, died.
- 10th of March, 2022, my second wife, Tonia, died.
Now, even though it may seem silly and redundant, I will write all those in the order in which they come up on my calendar:
- 27th of January, Don.
- 28th of January, Brent.
- 10th of March, Tonia.
- 11th of March, Pam.
- 16th of April, Eva.
- 18th of June, Adonna.
- 23rd of June, Linda.
- 18th of December, Brigitte.
Okay, that made me feel better, to write all that out here on my computer screen.
I already wrote all that in the back of my address book, but it looks better on my computer screen.
Plus, I know that, most likely, some of you will read it, and give me internet hugs.
Well, I thought about posting a few more of my recent YouTube videos, but as I look at this diary so far, maybe this is a good stopping point.
However, I want to break the mood and change the subject, to ask one question:
When, exactly, will E. Jean Carroll get an actual check?
When?
Ha!
Take care of yourselves and each other.
Hugs.