Tag: grief

April 5, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Downer day at Beguiling Hollywood, in which we contemplate death and the passing of friends

Poppets, there are just some days of the year when I go limp. Really. I don’t move much. I’m glummer than hell, bordering on teary, and because my natural state is pathologically chipper…it always confuses me. Until I remember what day it is. It’s always a day when one of…

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February 8, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Drug related death — or when death calls too early, not a cheery subject, but one worth a great deal of thought

The reason I am so non-judgmental of Hoffman or Bieber and so condemnatory of the pop cultural tinsel that adorns the reporting around them is that I am a drug addict in recovery, so like any drug addict I know exactly how Hoffman felt when he “went back out”. In…

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April 15, 2013 / Vickie Lester

ANOTHER KIND OF MARATHON FROM ANOTHER TIME

Dancers taking a break curbside in Los Angeles during the 1930s… I leave this in the capable hands of Andrew Sullivan because I am too overwhelmed to comment. Face Of The Day Apr 15 2013 @ 5:40pm Explosions At 117th Boston Marathon Victims are in shock and being treated at…

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December 14, 2012 / Vickie Lester

…BECAUSE THEY ARE NO MORE…

…Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more…