Friends will arrive and friends will disappear. There are lifetime friendships, to be sure, but like great-grandmother’s diamond ring, nothing lasts forever.
I been meek, and hard like an oak.
I seen pretty people disappear like smoke.
Friends will arrive and friends will disappear,
If you want me, honey baby, I’ll be here.
Lyric from Vic Chesnutt, Buckets of Rain
[Vic Chesnutt, in a wheelchair since an auto accident at age 18, died on Christmas day from an overdose of muscle relaxants]
I love you, Sera.
How very sad.
The US health care system has far to go and hasn’t even stepped on the path yet.
this is very very sad post sera, it doesn’t help that i’m in a very sad mood… did you lose a friend? Lord I hope not they are so hard to come by as we age, and i didn’t know you could die from muscle relaxants… files info away for future suicidal tendencies… have a nice day Sera, i love you!
Sigh. Is it any easier to take when it’s that direct??? I see that Vic Chesnutt was from Athens, GA, where my son graduated from college. It’s a small world after all.
I read about Vic Chestnutt on Kono’s blog. He was a great musician. Have you heard “Guilty By Association”?
On the contrary everything lasts forever. See E=mc squared and its ramifications and remember you are stardust
There is always a part of friendship that stays with you even when people leave….That for me is true friendship.
I will miss you too Dani…Love you
What Cheri said.
A deep post, Sera, and one which I would like to know more about to be able to comment on, personally. I’ve never been a people person, too many let downs, too much pain and betrayal of trust, and I prefer Mother nature and animals to humans. Those I love, I love deeply and unconditionally, and I am passionate and loyal, it’s just that so many others simply are not.
Complicated Life! We gives our confidence our friendship our love someone who one day says good bye! We have the arms fell all alone with our despair … but keep our hearts open to new feelings!
Love never dies, and I say it without the slightest doubt…sometimes, Love is in the leaving
The donkey doen’t like to loose a friend, and if the two ways are opposite, there is always something alive in his donkey mind.
Wonderful as always Sera!! A Happy New Year to you:)
Such is life sometimes.
Oh ! i’m sorry for Vic…
I still have not gotten over Dani leaving. I have never met anyone like her; and I doubt i ever will again. I have lost so many friends in my life. Each time it is tough to get over. time will make this better too. I wish her well. The rest of us will have to carry on.
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.” – Oscar Wilde
And there’s Woody Allen too: ” I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
We’re sad, aren’t we? But lovable…
This is a beautiful rainbow!
RIP Vic Chesnutt.
And some don’t even ever say goodbye.
I like this one above me – Some leaves without saying good-bye !!! Well, let them go . One day they will be sorry , but then it will be late ! I do not like these kind of games and I know many who are leaving and trying to get back.
I’m sorry for your loss. Sometimes people pass away, sometimes they just move along, but either way, it’s a grief. Peace…
That is a question, Sera, I never understood in my entire life. How come only the ones we love go away? Who does want to prove What? I don’t know… mysteries of life. Must they be left alone and not disturbed.
This comic strip transcends electronic waves and goes right to the heart!
Those are the tough times. I always hate that. Even if i am the one leaving. Though that has only happened twice in my life time.
oh my goodness!!! that poem about coco almost made me burst into tears!!! you are brilliant my dear, how old are you? wait that’s rude, try not to go crazy ok? coz brilliance and madness are close sisters…
You have the most original blog. Very cool.
i love having you as a bloggy friend, but you do have me a bit worried lolol do be careful, and sorry for the cryptic comment
The sky always hesitates between promise and threat!
och, yer young, so am i… it’s not downhill, being immature sucks… ok, just try not to get too emotional or think too much about one thing, there’s no answers, not even in physics lol… well there ARE answers, but only from God, none in this world
It’s sad but it’s true the most of the times. Today’s story is also sad and very delicately told, and the verses of Vic made me think. Sorry for his tragic end.
“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on.” ~ The Sunscreen Song
Who in all earth was Danielle?
Great picture of that road by the way… I like those kind of images.
So, you lost a companion – is that how I shall read it?
I lost a few over the years, not many, but a few. It always hurt like hell. Nothing you can do.
And yes, I am a total slacker this year with my woodcut, the theme was too difficult though. Christophorus carrying the Jesus child over the the river and complaining that he carries the weight of the whole world. How stupid of me. But it is almost “done,done” – a bit late, sure, maybe I recycle it for next year, then I will be finally one step ahead.
OK, I’ll take a darn picture when it is done and post it on my silly blog, just for you!
Give me two more days.
Love as always, me.
I wander if you kept going you would go under the rainbow, nice one
As for each year it’s; for auld lang syne, my dear
for auld Lang syne, we’ll tak a cup o kindness yet, for auld lang syne! -Along the long and winding road as friends drop out but remain close in memory ! -. Best wishes
it is so true …
Bien à toi !
You text is so true, the comic is sad sometimes things are so direct not sure which is worst. P.S. thanks for pointing me to a great artist.
I’m so sorry for the loss. Every day we have is a gift…
happens all the time…
Love the rainbow picture btw
A kind of sad start to the year on this one! Great to hear from you and Happy New Year! I like the rainbow image also – it must be somewhere in Nevada! Have a great day!
there is no such a feast which can last for ever…like the rainbow, beautiful but transient…
Friend of mine just phoned me to tell me how her darling from US phoned her and said he has another ‘female friend’, after being with my friend for more than 4 years ….. Sad, isn’t it ?
And the worse thing is that he would not have said that but she noticed he got changed, very cold on the phone and asked him what was wrong . Well, that is how relationships are ending .. …sad .. sad …
What a tragic story!
It’s tough to lose a friend. Tougher than I thought it would be. I hated the experience, but I learned from it.
A sad sad thing… and nothing one can do. Dig the image of the road… very cool
I’m so sorry, Sera.
I have a hard time with impermanence. Wired, somewhere deep in my brain, is this notion that things need to be permanent and not transitory. TO be sure, not everyone and everything, but … friends are definitely something I expect to be permanent. I’ve lost several over the years – before the Internet, it was easier to lose friends, but … in this age of FB and blogs and online netowrking, people can still choose to disappear.
I like to believe that people are worth remembering and holding onto and not just a decaying phosphor pattern.