Comments on KILLER HOBBIES: The chickadees—and the angels—watch over them

Just got back to LA from Boston--Camille, thanks f...

2008-07-05T09:21:00.000-04:00

Just got back to LA from Boston--Camille, thanks for sharing about your brother. I do cling to those symbols of hope--they help us go on. Sheila, that's what I do, too--project to "what might have been." Especially during times of stress, I find. Thanks for the hugs and chickadees, Linda! Terri, I'm glad for you that someone in your family bought your grandmother's house. I feel a bit odd that our old house is sitting there unused, like a shrine, but I feel that someday it will be a place of refuge for someone in the family. Maybe even for me! Betty, I totally understand keeping the condo, and glad that it helps you feel close to your mother's spirit.

Thanks, all, for the wonderful supportive words!

What a nice post, Kathryn. I can certainly unders...

2008-07-04T23:32:00.000-04:00

What a nice post, Kathryn. I can certainly understand wanting a place with connections to your past.

When my mother died I kept her Chicago condo and every time I walk in the door, it is like being hugged by her.

Lovely, Kathryn. I feel this way about my grandmot...

2008-07-04T18:23:00.000-04:00

Lovely, Kathryn. I feel this way about my grandmother's house in upstate New York. Luckily one of my cousins was able to buy it for his family.

The real question is how it changes the parents. We can only imagine (if we're lucky).

Nice tribute to your sister.

What a poignant post, Kathryn. Hugs--and chickade...

2008-07-04T12:34:00.000-04:00

What a poignant post, Kathryn. Hugs--and chickadees!
--Linda

I think of that too, Sheila. Not only what would i...

2008-07-04T11:47:00.000-04:00

I think of that too, Sheila. Not only what would it have been like to have a brother, but how different my parents would have been if they hadn't lost him.

What a wonderful post, and a great opportunity for...

2008-07-04T09:15:00.000-04:00

What a wonderful post, and a great opportunity for you to keep the past with you.

I spend a lot of time in cemeteries looking for ancestors, and I always feel I am honoring them, and the others of the community buried with them, by being there. I keep their memory alive.

My mother had a late miscarriage when I was in third grade. The child was a boy, and I've occasionally thought, he'd be twenty, thirty, forty by now. How would my life have been different with a younger brother?

Very moving, Kathryn.I had a brother who died at ...

2008-07-03T23:11:00.000-04:00

Very moving, Kathryn.
I had a brother who died at 2 1/2 of pneumonia 4 years before I was born. It was a life changing event for my mother ... she talked about him every day.

It's nice to have symbols of hope also.