favorite song today

[ritaxis]

This video is a pretty literal acting-out of the words of "Dedo mili, zlatni," which ia Macedonian song about how Golden Dear Grandpa and Grandma live out their quaint and loving sunset years eating peppers and smoking pipes and spinning wool and all that.

I'm seriously trying to learn the song, though it pisses me off*. What should be happening right now is that I should be learning this song to tease the nice fellow about being Dedo mili zlatni himself. And it's five years too late for that.

Couple dances piss me off too, did I ever mention that? Because a project the nice fellow and I were working on that year was finding a dance class we both would like to do.

*I mean, it also pisses me off, as well as making me happy.

edit: on another front, Youtube is recommending for me videos posted by "Moldova Are Talent," which pleases me immensely.

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[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

When I read this the other day, I thought about my own nice fellow, and how devastated I would be to lose him, how terrifying it was a few months ago when he fainted in front of me (he's fine; he was just dehydrated, and he's promised to stay hydrated from now on). I thought about how sweet it always was when you'd write about Ted during his life, how you always seemed so very suited to each other, so very companionable. I thought about how proud he'd be of your writing, of the progress you've made on that novel, and even how proud he'd be of how you've managed to remake your life in such appallingly difficult circumstances.

I didn't write any of that down then. I didn't let you know how much what you write touched me and how much it made me think about my life and the things I know or guess about your life. I wrote it now, because the New York Times has a column today by a recent widow talking about how bereft she is, how her friends have dropped her since her spouse died, and I was reminded that my friendship for you doesn't exist if it only lives in my head. The thoughts have to travel in your direction if they're going to count as communication.

So here they are.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I appreciate this more than I can say.

But my situation is so different from that other person's. I was not abandoned by friends, even friends who were primarily Ted's. This is remarkable, when you take into account what a hermit I am when I am disturbed, and how little reaching out I sometimes do myself.

And my circumstances too - I mean, there is a certain lack of money and stuff, but I have my house, which has made all the difference, and widow's pensions from his work. So even though I never asked for a man to provide for me, in actuality, he did.