Comments for Ominous Rabbit http://ominousrabbit.com Online News Journal of My Very Small World Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:32:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Laying at the Bedside of Silly by Cousin Elaine http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/laying-at-the-bedside-of-silly/comment-page-1/#comment-471 Cousin Elaine Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:32:50 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3372#comment-471 Hello Quemby! As you may have heard my son-in-law suffered the loss of his sister this past May, from a motorcycle accident. I shuffled off to Texas, after they returned from the funeral, to offer some support and run after Logan (who is now 2yrs). We have walked this path before, both the unexpected deaths and the protracted illness. I enjoy reading your blog and the simple pleasures and memories you and Chris are creating with your Dad. These will bring you comfort, giggles and tears after he passes, all of which are the necessary tools for grieving. Please give your Dad my best, I am so thankfull we were able to meet him, chat, break bread and drink together (at your mother's birthday party). Much love and virtual hugs cousin!! Elaine Hello Quemby!

As you may have heard my son-in-law suffered the loss of his sister this past May, from a motorcycle accident. I shuffled off to Texas, after they returned from the funeral, to offer some support and run after Logan (who is now 2yrs). We have walked this path before, both the unexpected deaths and the protracted illness.

I enjoy reading your blog and the simple pleasures and memories you and Chris are creating with your Dad. These will bring you comfort, giggles and tears after he passes, all of which are the necessary tools for grieving. Please give your Dad my best, I am so thankfull we were able to meet him, chat, break bread and drink together (at your mother’s birthday party). Much love and virtual hugs cousin!! Elaine

]]> Comment on Laying at the Bedside of Silly by Virginia Johnson http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/laying-at-the-bedside-of-silly/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Virginia Johnson Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:50:18 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3372#comment-470 Thank you, thank you, thank you, Quenby, for including me in your latest update. Your dad and I have been communicating lately about the alien. My boyfriend has one too. I have had so many hopes about Charles' alien going on its merry way and leaving him alone. Alas. It was not meant to be. I was sending an e-mail to your dad while you were sending me this. I had wanted to write him - over time - of the many fond memories I have had throughout our friendship of more than forty years. Here is what I wrote to Charles today: "you and I trudging through over a foot of new snow on our way to our homes in Boulder after getting off the evening bus from UCD. We were tough then, weren't we?" We all know that your dad has remained tough to the end. You too, Quenby. I remember you and Jenny in diapers in your backyard in Boulder. So many memories. I know that your dad will face death with the same vigor and humor that he faced life. My love to all of you - virginia Thank you, thank you, thank you, Quenby, for including me in your latest update. Your dad and I have been communicating lately about the alien. My boyfriend has one too. I have had so many hopes about Charles’ alien going on its merry way and leaving him alone. Alas. It was not meant to be. I was sending an e-mail to your dad while you were sending me this. I had wanted to write him – over time – of the many fond memories I have had throughout our friendship of more than forty years. Here is what I wrote to Charles today: “you and I trudging through over a foot of new snow on our way to our homes in Boulder after getting off the evening bus from UCD. We were tough then, weren’t we?” We all know that your dad has remained tough to the end. You too, Quenby. I remember you and Jenny in diapers in your backyard in Boulder. So many memories. I know that your dad will face death with the same vigor and humor that he faced life. My love to all of you – virginia

]]> Comment on Dear Charter Members of the Charles Moone Appreciation Society, by Sarah Irvine http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/dear-charter-members-of-the-charles-moone-appreciation-society/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Sarah Irvine Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:45:28 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3359#comment-445 What a stalwart, steady, loving, kind, loyal, and brilliant light Charles has shed on my life these nearly 45 years. It is that light that gives the strength to go on now, knowing we all had that and how much it has always meant. Even better, he shed that light on everyone around him. I know of no one who has more devoted friends, whom he always accepted with grace and love. He was so funny, too, full of zesty life. I can still hear that booming voice underneath the frailer one I heard last night. The big guffaws at the absurdity of life. The loud delight in a good joke. The eagerness to embrace, to cherish, to honor. Thank you, dear, dear friend. And thank you, Quenby and Chris, for all the qualities you inherited from him, and added some of your own. We are the Family of Charles. Much love, Sarah What a stalwart, steady, loving, kind, loyal, and brilliant light Charles has shed on my life these nearly 45 years. It is that light that gives the strength to go on now, knowing we all had that and how much it has always meant. Even better, he shed that light on everyone around him. I know of no one who has more devoted friends, whom he always accepted with grace and love. He was so funny, too, full of zesty life. I can still hear that booming voice underneath the frailer one I heard last night. The big guffaws at the absurdity of life. The loud delight in a good joke. The eagerness to embrace, to cherish, to honor. Thank you, dear, dear friend. And thank you, Quenby and Chris, for all the qualities you inherited from him, and added some of your own. We are the Family of Charles.

Much love,

Sarah

]]> Comment on Dear Charter Members of the Charles Moone Appreciation Society, by Arn Johnson http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/dear-charter-members-of-the-charles-moone-appreciation-society/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Arn Johnson Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:44:46 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3359#comment-442 Hi, I was so happy when my sister Cara sent the link to your chronicle. What a wonderful website. Kind of a flashback here. Quenby, I remember us playing together as little kids. It's all kind of fuzzy, but what I did always remember was the quiet generosity and impression that your father and his art made on me - even as a young boy. He has always been Jerry's excellent companion, and I just want you to know we are thinking of him very much. Waves of peace and love, Arn Johnson Hi,

I was so happy when my sister Cara sent the link to your chronicle. What a wonderful website.

Kind of a flashback here. Quenby, I remember us playing together as little kids. It’s all kind of fuzzy, but what I did always remember was the quiet generosity and impression that your father and his art made on me – even as a young boy.

He has always been Jerry’s excellent companion, and I just want you to know we are thinking of him very much.

Waves of peace and love,
Arn Johnson

]]> Comment on Dear Charter Members of the Charles Moone Appreciation Society, by Quenby http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/dear-charter-members-of-the-charles-moone-appreciation-society/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Quenby Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:48:02 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3359#comment-437 Thanks so much, Kristen. I know you have had similar experiences, so you can understand the frenetic and then slow pace that overcomes us in times like this so I haven't had a chance to write back sooner. But I read all the comments and Dad reads them, too, and they mean a huge amount. We'll see each other over bowling someday soon. Beer, too. Quenby Thanks so much, Kristen. I know you have had similar experiences, so you can understand the frenetic and then slow pace that overcomes us in times like this so I haven’t had a chance to write back sooner. But I read all the comments and Dad reads them, too, and they mean a huge amount.

We’ll see each other over bowling someday soon. Beer, too.

Quenby

]]> Comment on Dear Charter Members of the Charles Moone Appreciation Society, by Quenby http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/dear-charter-members-of-the-charles-moone-appreciation-society/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Quenby Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:45:27 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3359#comment-436 Thanks, Carol. We're all stepping through it best we can--some days are better than others, but Dad is still good, despite the obvious decline in the last couple of weeks. Call anytime, Q Thanks, Carol. We’re all stepping through it best we can–some days are better than others, but Dad is still good, despite the obvious decline in the last couple of weeks.

Call anytime, Q

]]> Comment on Dear Charter Members of the Charles Moone Appreciation Society, by betsy goldberg http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/dear-charter-members-of-the-charles-moone-appreciation-society/comment-page-1/#comment-435 betsy goldberg Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:24:23 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3359#comment-435 Ah, Q, would that I could put it into words as you do. Nice to be recorded by you, bound with you all in that too short week, to be part of the chronicle, love in the extended family. Now the book boxes have arrived, stacked in the foyer. There they await the necessary reordering of the stuff here, editing my own agglomeration of precious and not-so, books. The haphazard non-arrangement of my shelves chides me in face of the order of Charles'. It will wait until it's cooler, after i return from the Cape, where i go without his wonderful help, company, example, inspiration, cooking, wee drams on the patio before dark and bugs. I loved being with you all, and the send off after that "good day's work", the divine round robin dinner, parade of delicious food, shared pleasure. Thank you. Happily fed, I boarded the plane, slept not a wink, but was able to look out the window, see bright stars in the real darkness, faint lights below the clouds, the country at sleep. And above, the arch of the milky way. And a little bit of comfort in the big picture. Ah, Q, would that I could put it into words as you do. Nice to be recorded by you, bound with you all in that too short week, to be part of the chronicle, love in the extended family. Now the book boxes have arrived, stacked in the foyer. There they await the necessary reordering of the stuff here, editing my own agglomeration of precious and not-so, books. The haphazard non-arrangement of my shelves chides me in face of the order of Charles’. It will wait until it’s cooler, after i return from the Cape, where i go without his wonderful help, company, example, inspiration, cooking, wee drams on the patio before dark and bugs.

I loved being with you all, and the send off after that “good day’s work”, the divine round robin dinner, parade of delicious food, shared pleasure. Thank you. Happily fed, I boarded the plane, slept not a wink, but was able to look out the window, see bright stars in the real darkness, faint lights below the clouds, the country at sleep. And above, the arch of the milky way. And a little bit of comfort in the big picture.

]]> Comment on Dear Charter Members of the Charles Moone Appreciation Society, by Kristen http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/dear-charter-members-of-the-charles-moone-appreciation-society/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Kristen Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:03:31 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3359#comment-431 My heart is with you. What a wonderful tribute you are to your father..your words, your heart, your spirit, your strength. I can imagine no greater gift for a child to give a parent than the unconditional love, grace, and acceptance you have shown him when he needed you most. My heart is with you. What a wonderful tribute you are to your father..your words, your heart, your spirit, your strength. I can imagine no greater gift for a child to give a parent than the unconditional love, grace, and acceptance you have shown him when he needed you most.

]]> Comment on Dear Charter Members of the Charles Moone Appreciation Society, by Carol Park http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/07/dear-charter-members-of-the-charles-moone-appreciation-society/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Carol Park Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:50:14 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3359#comment-430 Coming out of denial is painful so I am cracking (as you have been for weeks, months) and the tears and pain wrack my heart. God damn it all. There I said it. Thank you Quenby and Chris for keeping the Chartered Members connected and updated. Our love for your father keeps us all connected. Our love beyond measure, Carol and Kelsey Coming out of denial is painful so I am cracking (as you have been for weeks, months) and the tears and pain wrack my heart.
God damn it all. There I said it.
Thank you Quenby and Chris for keeping the Chartered Members connected and updated. Our love for your father keeps us all connected.
Our love beyond measure,
Carol and Kelsey

]]> Comment on Choosing How the Sun Goes Down by Ominous Rabbit http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/06/choosing-how-the-sun-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Ominous Rabbit Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:24:15 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=3297#comment-424 Thanks, chi-town. This getting old and dying thing ain't for the faint of heart, is it? Miss you, chicago. Thanks, chi-town. This getting old and dying thing ain’t for the faint of heart, is it? Miss you, chicago.

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