August 10

It is funny/odd how anniversaries of dates can affect one, without awareness of what day one is living in. I've been especially thinking of my mother today and feeling a little sad. Just a little while ago, I realized that today is August 10. That was my parents' wedding anniversary.

A few days before my mother died in July 1992, I was here in Seattle visiting TFJ. We went shopping and the only thing I was interested in finding was an appropriate anniversary card for my parents, because I knew it would be the last one they shared. I found a silver Asian floral card that was just right, which is now framed in my house.

One day after buying the card, I got the phone call in Seattle that my mother had slipped into a coma. She died the next day. So long ago and usually I do not think about it.

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One more day in Seattle before heading north to Bellingham. Husband CB went off on a Greyhound bus to Bellingham today. His parents met him at the bus station. If I had parents living, I'd rush up there, too.

Tomorrow MJ and I will visit the Music Experience and then meet AE at the University Bookstore, because it's a good place to find cards, which I love to send. Then we'll get KA at her office and go to Green Lake to walk around it. I am excited about walking around Green Lake. (Since it's flat, my knee should be okay; I've learned it hurts when I go downhill!) After dinner with the girls, MJ and I will drive the rental car to Bellingham to CB's parents' home, which is about a mile away from where my parents' house is/was.

It is wonderfully cool weather-wise and beautiful. It's hard to imagine Texas heat right now!