Golda's and Our Jewish Arrogance
Dry Bones Golden Oldies in the fond memory of Yaakov Kirschen (Dry Bones) by Sali, the LSW. (Long Suffering Wife). This cartoon is from 1973. The people change but the situation doesn't change much. This was originally in B&W. I think that Yaakov colored this and reused it about 10 years ago.
It has now been three months since Yaakov passed away. I thought that I would give you a bit of an update on how I am doing these days. Feel free to skip this long read.
My brain fog has made me feel like I have mashed potatoes for a brain much of the time. But I noticed just a couple of days ago that the fog is starting to clear. My tears are fewer. My moments of overwhelming grief and feeling like I will die too are fewer. Everyone with experience with widowhood tells me that time makes things easier, and I see that it is true.
It still is emotionally hard for me to do the blog postings. It is easy to find a good cartoon. There are 8 or 9 thousand of them to choose from, but it is hard emotionally for me to look at all the old cartoons. They are like looking at him, a least for me.
Finally, today, I was steady enough to open up his laptop that he used at the rehab place for the last month or two of his life. Just because it has all of his favorite apps and programs and was so much a part of him. I am not sure why it is so hard for me. But I am taking a big gulp of air (and coffee too) and using his new laptop. Next week I will take the big step of having my computer guy, take off some of the things that I would not use, and put on to it my things, such as the bank. (Yaakov almost never dealt with money stuff. It made him very nervous, so I handled everything in the financial area.) I sometimes resented that, but now I am very happy that, unlike many widows, especially of my generation, I don't have the extra burden of suddenly learning the finances and the banking.
His laptop is much bigger, and stronger than mine. Also it has a touch screen. So I will soon start using it as mine. I wonder if other spouses find it hard in the beginning to use the things that were their spouses.
Hopefully now doing the blog postings will become much easier and I will find time and emotional space to go back to more painting time for myself. Soon maybe, I will start posting more about my paintings. I am 78 years old and reasonably healthy, so might have yet a few more years to get used to and live with being the widow of a very great man.
We have not had an unveiling yet. We will wait till his middle daughter is here from the USA, but we have put up the headstone. His daughters were responsible for the design and the wording and I think that they did a very good job.
Here is a photo of Yaakov's headstone.
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