Event for my Dad
Dec. 2nd, 2006 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the13thfairySo tomorrow my Mom has arranged a wake-type thing at Greyhaven for my dad. From like 5 to 8pm.
My uncle is supposed to come up from Santa Cruz with the ashes. My brother, his mother, his girlfriend, his little brother and possibly someone else are coming down from the Clear Lake area. Cruz and I are going.
And that is very likely to be about it - now mind you I don't MIND the opportunity to have something small and mostly family cause this family almost NEVER gets together like this.
And I know my mom has invited some of Dad's friends who are in the area to come - but I don't hold out a lot of hope that anyone will show up. This is in part based on the fact that when we relocated him back to California from Maryland several years ago we tried to have a "Welcome Mike to California" party - and no one showed up. It was very disheartening and distressing for him and us.
So yeah I feel a good bit of "the glass is more than half empty" about this. It will be neat to see my brother, and for him to see Greyhaven finally and meet some of the folk there who have been so important in my life.
If any of you here on my FList can or want to come please do - you didn't have to know my dad, cause as we all know a wake is much more for the family, and you all know me.
So yeah - Greyhaven, tomorrow at 5pm and not running late.
And now I get to scan and print some photos for tomorrow on my nifty new Color Laser.
I hope to see a couple of you tomorrow if you have the time - thanks.
My uncle is supposed to come up from Santa Cruz with the ashes. My brother, his mother, his girlfriend, his little brother and possibly someone else are coming down from the Clear Lake area. Cruz and I are going.
And that is very likely to be about it - now mind you I don't MIND the opportunity to have something small and mostly family cause this family almost NEVER gets together like this.
And I know my mom has invited some of Dad's friends who are in the area to come - but I don't hold out a lot of hope that anyone will show up. This is in part based on the fact that when we relocated him back to California from Maryland several years ago we tried to have a "Welcome Mike to California" party - and no one showed up. It was very disheartening and distressing for him and us.
So yeah I feel a good bit of "the glass is more than half empty" about this. It will be neat to see my brother, and for him to see Greyhaven finally and meet some of the folk there who have been so important in my life.
If any of you here on my FList can or want to come please do - you didn't have to know my dad, cause as we all know a wake is much more for the family, and you all know me.
So yeah - Greyhaven, tomorrow at 5pm and not running late.
And now I get to scan and print some photos for tomorrow on my nifty new Color Laser.
I hope to see a couple of you tomorrow if you have the time - thanks.
