Bible quiz? Okay, that was a little surprising.

[icarus]

This is probably scary coming from a Buddhist, but:

You know the Bible 74%!

 

Wow! You are truly a student of the Bible! Some of the questions were difficult, but they didn't slow you down! You know the books, the characters, the events . . . Very impressive!

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What?

Yeah, those "which book follows which" questions? No clue. Hooray random guessing.

wildernessguru's very sad, and filenotch has a point: I haven't been through losing a parent and have no way of knowing what he's going through. All I know is that for many people, their last word is "mom."

I'm now listening to John Sheppard skating music. Come on, Out Of Bounds, cheer me up....

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

he's probably doing some of his grieving now, even though it hasn't actually happened yet.

He is, most definitely.

I do think there is something to be said for offering him the opportunity (at any point in this process) to do things which are useful, but not particularly demanding or necessary.

Actually, I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean do something for her in some practical way, yes, I agree. He's a little too far for that, though I know he'd like to.

Icarus

[florahart]

Well, what I mean is not actually about doing thigs for her, but just, doing things that are useful, without them being pressureful. I think one of the things we do badly as a society is that we tend to either try to take all tasks away fro the grieving person, leaving her or him to flail around with nothing but the ow, or we given them tasks (sometimes ones like planning funerals) that are pressureful and don't leave them time to have the emotion they have. And I think there is middle ground: giving them tasks which are not busywork--useful things, but are also not ones that if they get distracted, it's a disaster. What that middle ground really looks like depends on the person, but the main point is, I think in trying to take off pressure, it's easy to take off TOO MUCH and leave the grieving party ungrounded and struggling to see anything but the grief.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm going to keep this in mind. For the present it's a non-issue, we're too sick to do much of anything, but later on, yeah.