edna.

My great aunt edna is dying. 

I am at a loss for most words, so i'll keep this short. 

She is a wonderful, sweet woman and has been so kind and giving. 

I am going to see her today, to tell her how i'm going to look forward to seeing her at my mom's Fourth of July party this year. 

I am going to leave a nice picture of her great great niece by her bed at the hospital. 

Know this, fellow fortysomethings: this is going to occur a lot more over the next twenty years to us. The loss and the funerals and the like. 

There is a generation turn over going on and we have to be strong, caring and respectful.