On Hold

Another trip to the library - another "on hold" book had arrived. 

It could have waited, but I needed something to, for at least a short time, take my mind off the two death notices I had just received.  The first was a friend I used to spend time with in her winter home in the Bahamas. She had been suffering for a long time with cancer; she died in her summer home out west surrounded by family. The other was my favourite aunt, my mom's sister, who had lived well into her 90's and died in a nursing home, also out west. Both far away...

It was a day of sadness and memories and phone calls with family members... a day in which everything else was put on hold for another time.