Starting in July, my friends' parents started dying; my mother in law started falling down and breaking things; my father is in hospice; my mother went in the hospital. I have been to so many wakes and bedside visits this year.
And today, my dog is having surgery for a cancerous tumor on her side.
We all go through it. The dying of our parents, and illnesses of our friends and family and pets. But this year seems particularly bad and thus, I wonder: Is there a Vortex of Doom that I am living in? Because 2013 (although it does end in 13) has otherwise been uneventful, it seems as if things are happening in our circle with a regularity that means I am running out of funeral clothing.
So we hold onto our loved ones and hope. But I might try a small ceremony on New Year's Eve with candles and feathers and crystals and scotch, in hopes that 2014 brings an end to all this suffering.
