A Jackie moment

I'm having a Jackie moment.

I had lunch with Sally, Nancy and Eddie today and then went to our local art museum to see the Salvador Dali exhibit - his works based on Dante's Divine Comedie. It was awesome to see it in such close up detail. we could put our noses to the glass - which I almost have to do to see the subtleties well. After I came home, I thought - I want to share this with Jackie. I would have emailed immediatly to tell her about the colors, the amazing images, and she would be answering back with things she had seen of his that she liked or disliked.

I talked to her this morning on the phone and won't call again until tomorrow morning. She really perked up when I told her we were going to see Dali's work in person. It will give her something else to think about while she's lying there dosing off and on. After all you can't think about dying all the time. Jackie has never taken herself very seriously. She always has a smile ready to light up her face.

If she were able to, this is about the time we'd be sending back and forth lists of thing in life we will NOT miss when we are gone. We already know what we would miss. Pretty soon we'd be joking and laughing. She will never have to clean another toilet. At one time in her life she was a property manager for apartments. Good gosh the horror stories she could tell. She won't have to listen to car radios blasting and booming from a block away.

On the other hand, she will not see whether the beavers were able to rebuild their dam after the last rains. Some years they have to rebuild time after time. This was always a source of wonder to her. This year was the rainiest and longest winter season we can remember, and she was unable to watch them. We needed some computer wizard to come set up a virtual camera there so she could watch from home. But, wizards are hard to find. LOL