Mortaine’s Blog

Things I will do this weekend:

Make my Halloween costume.
Finish Junglemonkee’s babygoddess outfit– woefully undone, as yet.
Finish article for Intercom
Do paperwork and filing
Read a book.
Have the first weekend in a long time where I didn’t worry about work.

Irwin’s footage will never air.

I’m not awwing about the decision not to air the footage– I think it’s the right thing to do.

I am “awwing” because I am struck by what a terrible, terrible difference there is between Terri’s beautiful, smiling, happy face in the top photo, posing with Steve and a turtle, and the photo of a widow holding fast to her children in the bottom picture. That face, that look, is why I have such a hard time watching movies in which two happily married people are split apart by the death of one of the partners. That face, that expression that she has is the look I know I would wear every day, were I to lose John.

It’s quite sobering.

I will be in Boston, Massachusetts the weekend of October 18th. I will be busy much of the time, but will try to arrange some kind of public gathering of like minds.

Love,
Me.