Comments on: Grandma’s Bones http://www.chiburibird.net/sporkballblog/2009/05/03/grandma-funeral-cremation/ Serving up the dish on baseball, life and the pursuit of happines Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:51:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BeesGal http://www.chiburibird.net/sporkballblog/2009/05/03/grandma-funeral-cremation/comment-page-1/#comment-3069 BeesGal Tue, 12 May 2009 00:37:36 +0000 http://www.chiburibird.net/sporkballblog/?p=3752#comment-3069 Hi Angela, Thanks for the thoughts. It's kind of funny what I remember, since this happened close to 20(?) years ago. I think what meant the most to me was I finally got to have conversations with my maternal Grandparents. Sounds odd, I know. You see, I never really talked with my paternal Grandparents who immigrated to the U.S. sometime before WWII—the 1930s, I believe. By the time I was proficient enough in Japanese, Grandpa was about stone-deaf and Grandma had a tendency to ramble. She often thought I was my sister, who never spoke Japanese. There were some other odd family dynamics involved as well. Dad didn't get along with his sisters, so we didn't visit his parents much. At any rate, I feel blessed to have spent time with one Grandma, both in life and in death. . .BeesGal Hi Angela,
Thanks for the thoughts. It’s kind of funny what I remember, since this happened close to 20(?) years ago. I think what meant the most to me was I finally got to have conversations with my maternal Grandparents.

Sounds odd, I know. You see, I never really talked with my paternal Grandparents who immigrated to the U.S. sometime before WWII—the 1930s, I believe. By the time I was proficient enough in Japanese, Grandpa was about stone-deaf and Grandma had a tendency to ramble. She often thought I was my sister, who never spoke Japanese. There were some other odd family dynamics involved as well. Dad didn’t get along with his sisters, so we didn’t visit his parents much.

At any rate, I feel blessed to have spent time with one Grandma, both in life and in death. . .BeesGal

]]> By: Angela http://www.chiburibird.net/sporkballblog/2009/05/03/grandma-funeral-cremation/comment-page-1/#comment-3068 Angela Tue, 12 May 2009 00:08:55 +0000 http://www.chiburibird.net/sporkballblog/?p=3752#comment-3068 What a great journal! I thought it incredibly fascinating. I loved the way you wrote it, so fluid and well thought out and I could tell that grandma meant a lot to you. What a great journal! I thought it incredibly fascinating. I loved the way you wrote it, so fluid and well thought out and I could tell that grandma meant a lot to you.

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