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In reply to the discussion: So Tonight... My 85+ Year Old Mom Is Sobbing Uncontrollably... [View all]steve2470
(37,461 posts)10. many hugs for you and your mom!
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Nice post. Lapsed Buddhist here (if such is possible); I'm now full-tilt Marxist (materialist) but
KingCharlemagne
Feb 2015
#29
After Bush and Cheney I stopped believing in karma in any meaningful sense. (I probably should
KingCharlemagne
Feb 2015
#34
This is very helpful, vlyons. Makes it a tiny bit easier to process what madness goes on around us.
calimary
Feb 2015
#70
I am 73 years old and that is what I was thinking. Set down beside her and hold her in your arms.
jwirr
Jan 2015
#16
I join you in feeling like crap also. Wish I could say something to help. Just take this:
kelliekat44
Jan 2015
#13
Like we're any better than ISIS. Just yesterday, Texas executed an inmate with an
KingCharlemagne
Feb 2015
#31
There's a line from Shakespeare that comes to mind: "Oh, it is excellent to have
KingCharlemagne
Feb 2015
#52
What a wonderful caring person. Your post brought tears to my eyes. People like your mother...
BlueJazz
Feb 2015
#27
If you have access, Beethoven's "9th Symphony" (and the 4th choral movement)
KingCharlemagne
Feb 2015
#33
When I was young, the Mother of one of my friends had passed through the death factories. . .
Journeyman
Feb 2015
#36
I'm sorry. Seven billion of us, most are okay. TV makes it hard to remember that.
LeftyMom
Feb 2015
#41
Your parents survived the sacrifices and horror of "The war to end all wars".
johnnyreb
Feb 2015
#61