About depression.
I am depressed. This is a feeling I don't normally have. I can bounce back from this feeling quickly and have several times in my life. But this time it is really getting to me.
In the past month I have found a man that I loved like a father passed away three weeks ago. He was a sweet man who helped out Lois more than he should have, but he did it. Thank God. He was in his 80's so I am saddened by his passing, but I'm only with it, after all he would have been 86 this November. That's a good long life. Even Bruce would have said it was a good life.
Then came Garry Shandling. Garry was a personal favorite of mine who only was surpassed by Robin Williams as one of my favorite comics. He was a local boy who made good. He was born in Chicago, but grew up in Tucson. Went to Palo Verde High School (Where my kids go now) and graduated from the University of Arizona. I was honored to see him live when he first started, and was THRILLED when he started popping up on the Tonight show a few months later.
To see him go at 66 without warning just has ripped my heart out. The day before he died I had ordered and gotten the complete "Larry Sanders Show" and was thrilled when it came. Less than 12 hours later he was gone. The world is a little less funny now.
Friday a friend of mine who wasn't quite 50 passed away. A single mother of two lovely girls under the age of 10. I grew up with her brother and sister, she was the annoying little sister, but no matter how nuts she made you, she had a big heart that needed more in her life and that's when she began her small family. ( Michelle never found a man who appreciated her, and she would not settle. Good girl. )
And tonight I read that Doris Roberts has passed. Doris was one of my favorite actresses. She could be sad funny and a wonder mensch when needed. But Doris was 90, and lived a good life. Worked until the day she died, and still had work lined up. Nothing more could any performer want.
But I'm going to miss her.
I know it's silly to miss Doris and Garry, but they were a part of my life, as much as my friends were, and I lost two of them decades before they should have gone.
There is not a damn thing I can do about death, and I know that. I need to do as all of us need to do when losing people they care about.
I need to remember Bruce's dry sense of humor, and remember him every time I smell pipe tobacco.
I need to remember Garry Shandling every time I'm lucky enough to see him performing thanks to the magic of YouTube. And enjoy the laughs he gave me.
I need to remember the smile on Michelle's face when she introduced me to her kids.
And finally Doris, Remington Steele, Everyone loves Raymond...will be around forever and a day and I will laugh at every line.
Now no one else die until I get out of this funk!
In the past month I have found a man that I loved like a father passed away three weeks ago. He was a sweet man who helped out Lois more than he should have, but he did it. Thank God. He was in his 80's so I am saddened by his passing, but I'm only with it, after all he would have been 86 this November. That's a good long life. Even Bruce would have said it was a good life.
Then came Garry Shandling. Garry was a personal favorite of mine who only was surpassed by Robin Williams as one of my favorite comics. He was a local boy who made good. He was born in Chicago, but grew up in Tucson. Went to Palo Verde High School (Where my kids go now) and graduated from the University of Arizona. I was honored to see him live when he first started, and was THRILLED when he started popping up on the Tonight show a few months later.
To see him go at 66 without warning just has ripped my heart out. The day before he died I had ordered and gotten the complete "Larry Sanders Show" and was thrilled when it came. Less than 12 hours later he was gone. The world is a little less funny now.
Friday a friend of mine who wasn't quite 50 passed away. A single mother of two lovely girls under the age of 10. I grew up with her brother and sister, she was the annoying little sister, but no matter how nuts she made you, she had a big heart that needed more in her life and that's when she began her small family. ( Michelle never found a man who appreciated her, and she would not settle. Good girl. )
And tonight I read that Doris Roberts has passed. Doris was one of my favorite actresses. She could be sad funny and a wonder mensch when needed. But Doris was 90, and lived a good life. Worked until the day she died, and still had work lined up. Nothing more could any performer want.
But I'm going to miss her.
I know it's silly to miss Doris and Garry, but they were a part of my life, as much as my friends were, and I lost two of them decades before they should have gone.
There is not a damn thing I can do about death, and I know that. I need to do as all of us need to do when losing people they care about.
I need to remember Bruce's dry sense of humor, and remember him every time I smell pipe tobacco.
I need to remember Garry Shandling every time I'm lucky enough to see him performing thanks to the magic of YouTube. And enjoy the laughs he gave me.
I need to remember the smile on Michelle's face when she introduced me to her kids.
And finally Doris, Remington Steele, Everyone loves Raymond...will be around forever and a day and I will laugh at every line.
Now no one else die until I get out of this funk!
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