Sailor far from the sea

All of us who have been reading the Seablogger’s remarkably candid journal of his struggle to say farewell to his alcoholic and ill partner have learned more than we knew about dealing with sorrow. The proprietress of Just Muttering has a good summary of the story taking place in Fargo, a place I admit I pretty much thought of only as a movie before this. My mother’s sister was an alcoholic whose behavior sometimes replicated what the Seablogger is going through. Unlike his partner, my aunt eventually killed herself. I didn’t know what to think about that at the time, but now I think maybe she did us all a favor.