Heavy Month
Oct. 22nd, 2025 03:24 pmI attended a wedding with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
neotoma to see her niece marry. It was a lovely wedding in a beautiful German Catholic church. The reception had good food and our table had good company in the form of neotoma brothers and offspring.
My highpoint was getting good deli food on the first night. I have complained about Savannah's dearth of Jewish Delis -- any delis, frankly -- so it was nice to have a chance for great chopped liver and excellent garlic pickles.
Actually, going to the Columbus Museum of Art was excellent, too. Had the Artemesia Gentilleschi exhibit already opened, I have no doubt it would have surpassed good deli. There was a fascinating Monet which was darker than most of his works. https://5095.sydneyplus.com/final/Portal/DefaultOld.aspx?component=AAFG&record=9bf03cf5-8038-4c90-8235-a00267f63b47 It says that it's not currently on display, but we saw it. I got a chill on the back of my neck when I realized it was painted in 1918. Giverny was close enough to hear the guns, if the wind was in the right direction.
The other piece that struck me was this one:
The dipper and north star are hidden in the skirt. She has a small room to herself now. She represents the road to freedom pre-Civil War. Columbus had many stops for the Underground Railroad.
Ohio State University was having areligious ritual Homecoming game, so there were some interesting detours when driving.
Two nights before I left, there was a call from a cousin in Texas telling me that the cousin mentioned in this post ( https://fabrisse.dreamwidth.org/2024/03/11/ ) was in her last days. Two thousand dollars and some very long phone calls later, I got a flight from Columbus to Dallas via Detroit [In what world does that make sense?] on the Sunday after the wedding.
I got to see her twice on Monday. I don't know if she knew I was there in the morning because she kept drifting out of sleep. The cousin who called us said she was praying that Elder!Cousine made it to the next day as that Monday, October 6, was her birthday.
Elder!Cousine made it to Thursday. Her funeral was Friday, October 17. Sis and I managed to get direct flights from and to Savannah which helped. We stayed through Saturday and was able to see the last surviving Cousine from that generation. At 93, she still had a sharp mind and was a good conversationalist. But it's tough. How long until we will be going to her funeral?
The Savannah Film Festival is next week. I'm seeing five films definitely and I'll be waiting in line for several other films, in case the "sold out" doesn't actually fill the theater.
neotoma to see her niece marry. It was a lovely wedding in a beautiful German Catholic church. The reception had good food and our table had good company in the form of neotoma brothers and offspring.My highpoint was getting good deli food on the first night. I have complained about Savannah's dearth of Jewish Delis -- any delis, frankly -- so it was nice to have a chance for great chopped liver and excellent garlic pickles.
Actually, going to the Columbus Museum of Art was excellent, too. Had the Artemesia Gentilleschi exhibit already opened, I have no doubt it would have surpassed good deli. There was a fascinating Monet which was darker than most of his works. https://5095.sydneyplus.com/final/Portal/DefaultOld.aspx?component=AAFG&record=9bf03cf5-8038-4c90-8235-a00267f63b47 It says that it's not currently on display, but we saw it. I got a chill on the back of my neck when I realized it was painted in 1918. Giverny was close enough to hear the guns, if the wind was in the right direction.
The other piece that struck me was this one:
The dipper and north star are hidden in the skirt. She has a small room to herself now. She represents the road to freedom pre-Civil War. Columbus had many stops for the Underground Railroad.
Ohio State University was having a
Two nights before I left, there was a call from a cousin in Texas telling me that the cousin mentioned in this post ( https://fabrisse.dreamwidth.org/2024/03/11/ ) was in her last days. Two thousand dollars and some very long phone calls later, I got a flight from Columbus to Dallas via Detroit [In what world does that make sense?] on the Sunday after the wedding.
I got to see her twice on Monday. I don't know if she knew I was there in the morning because she kept drifting out of sleep. The cousin who called us said she was praying that Elder!Cousine made it to the next day as that Monday, October 6, was her birthday.
Elder!Cousine made it to Thursday. Her funeral was Friday, October 17. Sis and I managed to get direct flights from and to Savannah which helped. We stayed through Saturday and was able to see the last surviving Cousine from that generation. At 93, she still had a sharp mind and was a good conversationalist. But it's tough. How long until we will be going to her funeral?
The Savannah Film Festival is next week. I'm seeing five films definitely and I'll be waiting in line for several other films, in case the "sold out" doesn't actually fill the theater.
