Random meeting, good story

[Marthe48]

My s-i-l helps with his family business. His assistant was unavailable. My daughter offered to help him if she could, so she met some people for preliminary business. It turns out, the people were from the town where we lived until 1989. As they spoke, my daughter mentioned several people we had known, but the guy didn't know them. Then he mentioned my husband's name and my daughter was thrilled. The man worked with my husband, and had nothing but good to say about him. My daughter related the chance meeting and the story, and we were both choked up knowing that even outside of our family circle, her Dad, my husband, are not forgotten. It's been just 8 years since he died, over 20 since he retired. Cheered me up.

[GreenWave]

1. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thank you for sharing this lovely story, my dear Marthe48 . . .

It warmed my heart too.

[jfz9580m]

3. I miss my mom everyday

I am so angered now that I can see the negligence behind what lead to her death in Nov 2021. Growth at all costs..move fast break shit. So shameless and callous.
She should have been with me today and she isn’t and I am going to file complaints over that here in my country the day I can both at the state and central govt level.
I want some worthless emerging technologies parasitically leeching my attention and resources way regulated and shut down where there isn’t strict oversight and documentation and real rules applicable in democracies that can advance technologically without wiping out citizens/building a rapacious creepy surveillance state via a corrupt and increasingly criminal private sector.
I lost 14 years of my life and my mom. She was only 72. People in my family live to be well into their 90s. Yes she had cancer. She also had an excellent oncologist and good care

But corrupt pushy hubris by the healthcare industry bent on rapaciouslt exploiting human life with this growing criminally spooky defence contracting and gaming etc complexes is scary undemocratic and an outrage.

My dad and I are still mourning her. He is a military vet and I am an honest if struggling scientist and will not forgive it.
This is not the type of world I want to live in and I see people with cancer survive all the time.
There is no forgiving this hasty and creepy rollout out frivolous self serving rot at the expense of my lfie and my mom’s.

[Marthe48]

4. I am sorry for your loss

My Mom passed away in 2007. I think of her often, think of all my loved ones often, not when they died, but when they lived and memories that remind me of happy times.