This is June: Informational-Emotional

My uncle died on Memorial Day this year, and that’s all I can really think about to write in this blog.

Once, I took a workshop from writer Mary Akers. It was all about "Writing What Haunts You.”

What haunts you, meaning, what do you always think about?

Sometimes we have to exhaust a thing before we can move on.

At this point in my life, less than a week has gone by since my uncle’s passing and I am still just remembering him. Though it was not a surprise (he had been bed-ridden for several years, and I know he is in a better place now), it is still always sad to lose people, isn’t it?

Several years ago I wrote about him for Feminine Collective. If you are interested in reading about my uncle, and his life in regards to the Vietnam War, you can read part of that story here: When the Bomb Sounds.

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THE CURRENT SOUR’D NEWS is that I will miss the market on Saturday June 15. Instead of baking that weekend, I’ll be visiting my family in the northwestern corner of Missouri.

My cousin, who lives out that way, has done family history research for years and has books upon books of family records. She is leading a little family history tour. We will see the old family farms. We may drive by the house my grandparents used to live in, the one that my uncle grew up in. And we will play board games and just hang out together.

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And that’s it for now. A little odd blog, perhaps, but here we are: This is June.

Now tell me, what’s been going on with you lately,

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