{"id":29328,"date":"2021-10-16T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T23:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=29328"},"modified":"2021-10-17T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T13:16:20","slug":"missing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2021\/10\/16\/missing-2.html","title":{"rendered":"missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many things go missing. Memory is a bastard peris (that was supposed to be &#8216;period&#8217;) a bastard. Rummaging through hundreds even thousands of old photos photos last night I turned up a squall of images I completely forgot about. Some of the few photos I got of the beautiful woman I knew And loved for 3 years. \u00a0I do not let sadness fester, nor regret. Who has time or purpose for that?<\/p>\n<p>But she will always be different to me. Most if not all of the women in my life, while in life, while impossible to forget, I am at least capable of what I call putting them away. Forgetting the sadness and the anger and the incompatibilities thinking thinking only of the good things. Thanks. That really only gets me so far though.<\/p>\n<p>I am walking to the cemetery now. Speaking these words and watching as they magically appear on the screen. Actually I can barely see the screen, so there will be plenty of need for editing I assume. I want to see if the chapel is open. I have sent emails to the cemetery but they ignore me. So I have to spend a good amount of time getting there just to see for myself if the place ever reopened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am presently standing in section 1W. Had. Had an interesting encounter with a woman looking for burial sites of her forebears or ancestors. Very friendly, amiable. Yeah amiable. She seemed to recognize at sight what I was doing, going from marker to marker taking photos. She seemed to know without even asking that I was getting photos of random sites to see what stories I could I could find about these people. I got a little high and holy I suppose by saying <em>you never know what story is waiting to be told<\/em>. Sounded a little pompous but whatever. She seemed to think it was cool so that&#8217;s that&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now I am walking back. Walking and talking. I actually think that woman wanted to maintain some contact or connection, but I was not feeling that joyful about the encounter. It was just nice to have a friendly face out there. Normally I ignore or stay away from other visitors because they could be out there grieving. They could be out there not to make friends but too Honor their dead. So I&#8217;m careful about those kind of things. But she approached me so it&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At home now and typing this at a keyboard, not screaming and walking and walking and talking. A whole bunch of stuff vanished, the stuff about me walking past the stripper&#8217;s house as part of my daily regimen. Where did all that go? I&#8217;d bone that stripper again. She was of the same moral fluff as I. Once she hit 40 it was anything goes. For me it was ~50-something, 2 years later. Save for some line breaks I&#8217;m not going to edit the raw speech-to-text because the randomness of the speech-to-text splatter is too fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many things go missing. Memory is a bastard peris (that was supposed to be &#8216;period&#8217;) a bastard. Rummaging through hundreds even thousands of old photos photos last night I turned up a squall of images I completely forgot about. 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