The evening of our arrival we huddled around the kitchen island with our bowls of Mimi’s famous chicken noodle soup – it’s her traditional welcome. Come and get me Ventura County School Board – my verbal-shame-guns are loaded, I DARE you.) They missed 2 days of school to spend time with their grandmother. I took my kids to visit my mom a couple weeks ago (during the school week. Haha-cancer is like when you’re hovering 12 inches off the bottom of the pool, starving for oxygen, then you open your eyes and see: “Oh, there’s a bottom to bounce off.”Īnd you shoot to the surface for a laugh, because it’s too soon to drown.Ĭancer has made my family optimistic, catastrophizing-comedians about tragedy and taboo (more-so, anyway.) An unexpected gift in the steaming pile of manure. It’s peculiar that 6 letters could do all that.Īnd even more surprising that those 6 letters would also at times be ‘haha’ funny, as described in definition 1a. It removes the want of too-many-words, if any at all. ’…that brings us to a place so powerful, it must be where we came from. Without the words being said, there’s a pervading sense of ‘ not this ,’ ‘ THIS. It’s funny how 6 simple letters (there’s not even a fancy one like x, y, or z) strung together manifest such a potent, bullshit detector. I used to meditate like a to get the same cut-through-the-crap, ground-of-being-ness that I feel in her presence of late. At times that feels tragic, but more often it feels peculiar because of what the meaning behind the word cancer now brings to each moment that I’m with her. I didn’t know that cancer was funny as-in ‘peculiar’ (definition 2), until my mom decided to forgo further treatment for it. His account of the war came in bits and pieces, sometimes bloody, sometimes funny. (placed in that order here for literary effect).Ģ: differing from the ordinary in a suspicious, perplexing, quaint, or eccentric way : PECULIARġa: affording light mirth and laughter : AMUSING Especially Merriam-Webster’s definition numbers 2 and 1a
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