Not feeling much right now, happy, sad or angry.My Great Aunt died yesterday.
She has been quite ill for the past week, but I didn't go up and see her, everyone else in the family managed to I think. I feel kind of bad about that, but not too bad because when they did go and see her there wasn't anything you could do. Just watch her 'sleeping'.
We didn't get up there last night either, because of the car crash at Pukeroa Bay. 4 people died in that crash last I heard. Thing is, we've known for a while that Aunty Peg would die. She's over 90 and has been partially paralyzed for over 10 years. In the past 3-5 years her hearing, vision and mind have been going too. I was always meaning to go and visit her, but hardly ever did. I'm sure she understands tho. She was a really neat woman.
Elders hold a lot of our past. I hope that as a country we can begin to respect them more.
The funeral is scheduled for Tuesday.
Posted by giffy at August 21, 2004 06:09 PM | TrackBack