Revisiting 2020 Emails
As I continue to write Journal of Grief, I have been referencing my emails from those days.
I have two sets of emails. One bucket is labeled "Parents Information", which includes emails from the last few years of their lives. It has emails from Mom's doctors. Emails from Asbury Methodist Village. And emails from and to my family about Mom and Dad, and the things that were happening in their lives.
The second bucket is labeled "Family Stuff". In summer 2020, I migrated emails about the family from my "Parents Information" label to the "Family Stuff" label, reflecting our change in life. Here are the responses I got from the Zoom invitations for a memorial for our parents in the fall of 2020. Ironically, we held it on what would have been Don Schon's 90th birthday - Don was Dad's best friend and shows up quite a bit in the biography I wrote for Dad, Maverick for the Built Environment.
Between these two repositories are the history of 2020 as my family experienced it. They are accompanied by the text exchanges among the four siblings and the ones I had with Asbury as Dad was dying, and Notes in my iPhone of Mom's health, which included some about Dad as well.
As I read through the emails, I remember those days. I've cried many times as I read them. Journal of Grief does seem to be an apropos title, after all.
I have two sets of emails. One bucket is labeled "Parents Information", which includes emails from the last few years of their lives. It has emails from Mom's doctors. Emails from Asbury Methodist Village. And emails from and to my family about Mom and Dad, and the things that were happening in their lives.
The second bucket is labeled "Family Stuff". In summer 2020, I migrated emails about the family from my "Parents Information" label to the "Family Stuff" label, reflecting our change in life. Here are the responses I got from the Zoom invitations for a memorial for our parents in the fall of 2020. Ironically, we held it on what would have been Don Schon's 90th birthday - Don was Dad's best friend and shows up quite a bit in the biography I wrote for Dad, Maverick for the Built Environment.
Between these two repositories are the history of 2020 as my family experienced it. They are accompanied by the text exchanges among the four siblings and the ones I had with Asbury as Dad was dying, and Notes in my iPhone of Mom's health, which included some about Dad as well.
As I read through the emails, I remember those days. I've cried many times as I read them. Journal of Grief does seem to be an apropos title, after all.
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