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Today's #grandma recordings, two from March 2023, at first analyzed the relationship of living relatives, so I won't talk about them. Then we had her father hitting her uncle, because that one reported that the father's siblings were lingering around for lunch at 10:30 already. The uncle bled after that.
That story directly triggered the follow-up about grandma's mother beating her with a (cow herding) stick for not properly watching the cows (apparently there was a misunderstand on the task). Grandma was bleeding everywhere, she said, and then was told to wash her jacket in the watering trough. She showed me the spot at her temple ("Schläfe"), which still hurt when she touched it.
Generally, the stories grandma told me when she already was in the nursery home, often revolved around pain and trauma.
110 recordings to go (plus the discussions on pictures in photo albums and recordings of other people)
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today, we marked the
today, we marked the
#2021 #86 #anniversary #august6 #august6th #covid19 #dailyPost #death #deathAnniversary #family #goodbye #grandma #grandmother #life #marked #marker #maternalGrandmother #pandemic #pandemicYears #passing #poem #poetry #postaday #remembrance #tanka #today #waka #way
fifth anniversary of
your passing, still not
having a way to say goodbye,
after all those pandemic years
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20260806:2005
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Today's #grandma recordings contained another five, in which I was summarizing talks I had with her. Those are sorted out for the moment. Together with the three recordings, I just transcribed, I have 112 left.
The only recording of February 2023 and the last before her COVID infection, was me asking her details about the two children, her father allegedly had from other women. But she didn't know a lot.
Then came the recordings of me reading from the notes I had taken while she was in hospital. At one point, she started talking and talking and I just grabbed a paper from her food/cutlery wrapping and started taking notes, before I asked a nurse for more paper. All of that was done masked and with protection gear worn over my clothing - she still was in COVID isolation.
A few days later, her odyssey began: They brought her to her home, where somehow the hospital forgot to mention the fact, that she's not able to stay on her feet anymore. So my parents had her taken back. First it looked like she would get a space in a nursery home over 35 km away. Luckily, it didn't work out and she got one 12 km away from me. I visited her every week, trying to get as many recordings as possible.
Now the recordings of her in freedom are done and I'm stuck with those from her last six months in the nursery home.
In one of the first ones, she told me how Baby Flo "the most beautiful baby of the world" 😍, was put outside with the buggy. His mother hadn't put a tissue in front of him, although grandma had told her to. At one point, there was a lot of yelling: a wasp hat flown into his hand, which he squeezed and got stung for it.
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Today's #grandma recordings contained another five, in which I was summarizing talks I had with her. Those are sorted out for the moment. Together with the three recordings, I just transcribed, I have 112 left.
The only recording of February 2023 and the last before her COVID infection, was me asking her details about the two children, her father allegedly had from other women. But she didn't know a lot.
Then came the recordings of me reading from the notes I had taken while she was in hospital. At one point, she started talking and talking and I just grabbed a paper from her food/cutlery wrapping and started taking notes, before I asked a nurse for more paper. All of that was done masked and with protection gear worn over my clothing - she still was in COVID isolation.
A few days later, her odyssey began: They brought her to her home, where somehow the hospital forgot to mention the fact, that she's not able to stay on her feet anymore. So my parents had her taken back. First it looked like she would get a space in a nursery home over 35 km away. Luckily, it didn't work out and she got one 12 km away from me. I visited her every week, trying to get as many recordings as possible.
Now the recordings of her in freedom are done and I'm stuck with those from her last six months in the nursery home.
In one of the first ones, she told me how Baby Flo "the most beautiful baby of the world" 😍, was put outside with the buggy. His mother hadn't put a tissue in front of him, although grandma had told her to. At one point, there was a lot of yelling: a wasp hat flown into his hand, which he squeezed and got stung for it.
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Today's (quite belated) #grandma recording mainly talked again about her aunt Sophie https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-54, for whom grandma was working during her mandatory social year, when Sophie learned that her husband had died in #WorldWar2 in August 1944. It completely crushed her aunt: She cried for the whole winter. Grandma still got furious about her, when she told me about those days. Grandma got worried about getting married herself one day. She swore herself, that she won't react like this, should she ever be in Sophie's situation. On a previous recording, she had already told me, that grandma didn't, when her husband passed away as well.
Even before the death of her husband, Sophie didn't have it easy. Their marriage apparently was annulled and they had to redo it two years later, because somebody had figured out about their blood-relationship. Before getting married with that husband, she was engaged to somebody, who lost his live a few days before the wedding.
Another story from today's recording, another recurring one, was the one of grandma's spinning wheel, which somehow ended up in the home of her sister, even though that one "didn't know how to spin ... or to swim .. and a driver's license, she also never had."
Since the next recording turned out to be only myself summarizing a phone call I had with her, this recording concludes January 2023. The last January of her life. 380 recordings done, 120 to go.
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Today's (quite belated) #grandma recording mainly talked again about her aunt Sophie https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-54, for whom grandma was working during her mandatory social year, when Sophie learned that her husband had died in #WorldWar2 in August 1944. It completely crushed her aunt: She cried for the whole winter. Grandma still got furious about her, when she told me about those days. Grandma got worried about getting married herself one day. She swore herself, that she won't react like this, should she ever be in Sophie's situation. On a previous recording, she had already told me, that grandma didn't, when her husband passed away as well.
Even before the death of her husband, Sophie didn't have it easy. Their marriage apparently was annulled and they had to redo it two years later, because somebody had figured out about their blood-relationship. Before getting married with that husband, she was engaged to somebody, who lost his live a few days before the wedding.
Another story from today's recording, another recurring one, was the one of grandma's spinning wheel, which somehow ended up in the home of her sister, even though that one "didn't know how to spin ... or to swim .. and a driver's license, she also never had."
Since the next recording turned out to be only myself summarizing a phone call I had with her, this recording concludes January 2023. The last January of her life. 380 recordings done, 120 to go.
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🎉 Introducing the #magical, #mythical 🐍 #Python #distributions that claim to run on anything from your grandma's #typewriter to your pet rock! Who knew the real barrier to Python's universality was just not enough #static linking? 🚀 Spoiler: it won’t work on your #toaster.
https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/ #Grandma #Linking #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Introducing the #magical, #mythical 🐍 #Python #distributions that claim to run on anything from your grandma's #typewriter to your pet rock! Who knew the real barrier to Python's universality was just not enough #static linking? 🚀 Spoiler: it won’t work on your #toaster.
https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/ #Grandma #Linking #HackerNews #ngated -
Today's #grandma recordings are a little belated, thanks to #July2026ConnectAThon at #WikiTree (which was not as pleasant as the previous ones, because I lacked motivation and physical energy for most of the weekend and needed a break after every second profile or so).
The two recordings from January 1st, 2023, kick off the last year of her life 😢 She didn't know anything to say, when I asked about an alleged carpenter apprenticeship of her father, who was really great at repairing all kinds of things.
Then I asked her, how she got her her driver's license: She took a break of a half a year, because the instructor was getting on her nerves. In the end, she received it at the first attempt. The guy in charge said, he had to ponder, if she should receive the precious document. In her usual way, she just slapped him with "then ponder!", which apparently did the trick.
Her and her brothers were the first from the family to get driver's licenses. Her sister and her parents never had one. Her uncle Wilhelm https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-27 only had his bike, which was equipped with a carbide lamp. On Sundays he always went somewhere to dance. While her grandmother always thought, that he took the train to #Freiburg, my grandma learned many years later, that he only went to nearby #Falkau, where they danced in the barn of a farm. A woman, who was visiting her some sixty years later, told her, how much she enjoyed dancing with him. What a pity, that he passed away as a Russian prisoner of war in the late 1940s.
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Today's #grandma recordings are a little belated, thanks to #July2026ConnectAThon at #WikiTree (which was not as pleasant as the previous ones, because I lacked motivation and physical energy for most of the weekend and needed a break after every second profile or so).
The two recordings from January 1st, 2023, kick off the last year of her life 😢 She didn't know anything to say, when I asked about an alleged carpenter apprenticeship of her father, who was really great at repairing all kinds of things.
Then I asked her, how she got her her driver's license: She took a break of a half a year, because the instructor was getting on her nerves. In the end, she received it at the first attempt. The guy in charge said, he had to ponder, if she should receive the precious document. In her usual way, she just slapped him with "then ponder!", which apparently did the trick.
Her and her brothers were the first from the family to get driver's licenses. Her sister and her parents never had one. Her uncle Wilhelm https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-27 only had his bike, which was equipped with a carbide lamp. On Sundays he always went somewhere to dance. While her grandmother always thought, that he took the train to #Freiburg, my grandma learned many years later, that he only went to nearby #Falkau, where they danced in the barn of a farm. A woman, who was visiting her some sixty years later, told her, how much she enjoyed dancing with him. What a pity, that he passed away as a Russian prisoner of war in the late 1940s.
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Two "Mary" grandmas
Born this date countries apart
Happy birthday Grams!#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Summer #July #Birthday #Grandma #Gram #Grandmother #Mary #Ontario #Canada #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
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Two "Mary" grandmas
Born this date countries apart
Happy birthday Grams!#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Summer #July #Birthday #Grandma #Gram #Grandmother #Mary #Ontario #Canada #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
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Today's #grandma recording started with how annoyed she was after her little sister was born. She had hoped for somebody to play with, but that one was crying most of the time. Her sister wouldn't sleep at night, if the lights were out, but their mother was too scared to use the stearin candles she had bought for this occasion, until somebody recommended her to use something like an altar lamp at church, an oil lamp with a small wick and only a small flame. That did the trick, the child slept.
Later, grandma "told" me about her plans of mounting some hooks to a closet in her living room/bedroom, so she could hang her trousers there, instead of putting them on top of it.
Ultimately, she would ask me, if my life is ok and if I'm generally happy with it. Then she started ranting about two divorced relatives and how they had been spoilt at home and never had to take care of themselves, only to end with how she overtook her grandma's farm with age 21 and how scared she was every night. Since then, she wasn't scared about many things anymore, except thunderstorms and lighting.
When looking at the file name of the next recording, to see if I'd do another one, I discovered that this recording of the 4th of September was the last one for 2022. This year had only taken me three months to transcribe, as opposed to the five, four and eight months the previous years took. But those also only were 27 recordings, while 2021 were 47 already.
So this it: next week (maybe with a little delay, since there is #July2026ConnectAThon at #WikiTree), I will start with the remaining 124 recordings covering the last ten months of her life. So far, I have been feeling pretty ok when hearing her voice, but I'm already terrified of how it will be to listen to her exhausted and broken voice towards the end.
Thank you so much for those extra characters, @david
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Today's #grandma recording started with how annoyed she was after her little sister was born. She had hoped for somebody to play with, but that one was crying most of the time. Her sister wouldn't sleep at night, if the lights were out, but their mother was too scared to use the stearin candles she had bought for this occasion, until somebody recommended her to use something like an altar lamp at church, an oil lamp with a small wick and only a small flame. That did the trick, the child slept.
Later, grandma "told" me about her plans of mounting some hooks to a closet in her living room/bedroom, so she could hang her trousers there, instead of putting them on top of it.
Ultimately, she would ask me, if my life is ok and if I'm generally happy with it. Then she started ranting about two divorced relatives and how they had been spoilt at home and never had to take care of themselves, only to end with how she overtook her grandma's farm with age 21 and how scared she was every night. Since then, she wasn't scared about many things anymore, except thunderstorms and lighting.
When looking at the file name of the next recording, to see if I'd do another one, I discovered that this recording of the 4th of September was the last one for 2022. This year had only taken me three months to transcribe, as opposed to the five, four and eight months the previous years took. But those also only were 27 recordings, while 2021 were 47 already.
So this it: next week (maybe with a little delay, since there is #July2026ConnectAThon at #WikiTree), I will start with the remaining 124 recordings covering the last ten months of her life. So far, I have been feeling pretty ok when hearing her voice, but I'm already terrified of how it will be to listen to her exhausted and broken voice towards the end.
Thank you so much for those extra characters, @david
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I completed transcribing the almost 1 hour long #grandma recording today. One part contained her telling that she saw St. Petersburg (Russia), Finland, Sweden,, Norway, England, Scotland and France and that she is happy, with what she saw during her life (and with her life in general, despite all the hardships). It's always inspiring to be able to listen to that. I hope, I will be able to take a bit of that optimism with me, for when I'm older.
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I completed transcribing the almost 1 hour long #grandma recording today. One part contained her telling that she saw St. Petersburg (Russia), Finland, Sweden,, Norway, England, Scotland and France and that she is happy, with what she saw during her life (and with her life in general, despite all the hardships). It's always inspiring to be able to listen to that. I hope, I will be able to take a bit of that optimism with me, for when I'm older.
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Nothing Beats Grandma’s Cooking
Write about a meal you’ll never forget. Some meals stay with you forever. Not because they were expensive or served on a plate the size of a manhole cover with three microscopic bites in the middle. They stay with you because they remind you of someone you loved. For me, it’s my Poli
#dailyprompt #Dailyprompt2812 #Dumplings #Food #Grandma #Polish #SauerkrautRead The Whole Post By Clicking The Link Below:
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Nothing Beats Grandma’s Cooking
Write about a meal you’ll never forget. Some meals stay with you forever. Not because they were expensive or served on a plate the size of a manhole cover with three microscopic bites in the middle. They stay with you because they remind you of someone you loved. For me, it’s my Poli
#dailyprompt #Dailyprompt2812 #Dumplings #Food #Grandma #Polish #SauerkrautRead The Whole Post By Clicking The Link Below:
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Photo study of my grandma about 10 years ago.
#MastoArt #art #CreativeToots #FediArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #artstudy #photostudy #markers #familyphotos #grandma #nostalgia #countryside #portrait
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Photo study of my grandma about 10 years ago.
#MastoArt #art #CreativeToots #FediArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #artstudy #photostudy #markers #familyphotos #grandma #nostalgia #countryside #portrait
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Today, the #grandma recordings were a real struggle, I'm tired and sweating, my neck itches from small hairs after having my hair cut some minutes ago. The first record was only three minutes and not particularly special. The second one revisited the story of Kunigunde #Schindler's revolver (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schindler-1413#Revolver for details). I stopped after the mandatory about 100 lines, because the second recording is almost an hour long. Let's hope next week gets better again.
Edit: Probably, wanting to continue watching #MoneyHeist didn't help either 😉
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Today, the #grandma recordings were a real struggle, I'm tired and sweating, my neck itches from small hairs after having my hair cut some minutes ago. The first record was only three minutes and not particularly special. The second one revisited the story of Kunigunde #Schindler's revolver (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schindler-1413#Revolver for details). I stopped after the mandatory about 100 lines, because the second recording is almost an hour long. Let's hope next week gets better again.
Edit: Probably, wanting to continue watching #MoneyHeist didn't help either 😉
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Oh, the irony! 🧐👴 The geriatric tech overlords want you to enable #JavaScript, proving once again that the real gerontocracy is the web devs who think your grandma's internet skills are still cutting edge. ⏳💻
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/06/25/is-america-becoming-a-gerontocracy #geriatrictech #irony #webdevs #digitaldivide #grandma #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, the irony! 🧐👴 The geriatric tech overlords want you to enable #JavaScript, proving once again that the real gerontocracy is the web devs who think your grandma's internet skills are still cutting edge. ⏳💻
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/06/25/is-america-becoming-a-gerontocracy #geriatrictech #irony #webdevs #digitaldivide #grandma #HackerNews #ngated -
@georgepenney Awwww #Grandma and recipe lady #Sweet.
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@georgepenney Awwww #Grandma and recipe lady #Sweet.
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I pulled myself together and managed to transcribe all five #grandma recordings of 7th of June 2022. The result are almost 300 lines of notes, where the weekly goal usually is about 100. This leaves me with 127 total recordings left.
Today's highlight was grandma trying to clean feathers from a pillow. Somebody had told her that one could put them in a pot* with a bit of fire below and to steer constantly, in order to the dirt to remain at the bottom. The fire wouldn't burn, so she went out in the garden to do some work there. At one point she smelled something weird and discovered that the whole kitchen was filled with smoke, when the fire then finally started burning properly. She decided to put the feathers on the dungheap and to cover them.
I have no clue, if there was any water involved or if the feathers were just dry in the pot. I guess, they wouldn't have started burning with water, so probably there was none?
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I pulled myself together and managed to transcribe all five #grandma recordings of 7th of June 2022. The result are almost 300 lines of notes, where the weekly goal usually is about 100. This leaves me with 127 total recordings left.
Today's highlight was grandma trying to clean feathers from a pillow. Somebody had told her that one could put them in a pot* with a bit of fire below and to steer constantly, in order to the dirt to remain at the bottom. The fire wouldn't burn, so she went out in the garden to do some work there. At one point she smelled something weird and discovered that the whole kitchen was filled with smoke, when the fire then finally started burning properly. She decided to put the feathers on the dungheap and to cover them.
I have no clue, if there was any water involved or if the feathers were just dry in the pot. I guess, they wouldn't have started burning with water, so probably there was none?
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Today's slightly belated #grandma recordings were mainly me reporting to her my latest research results and her commenting on them. It contained the fact, that her youngest brother weighed eight pounds at birth, while the next older one only had four. Apart from that, there was barely anything new.
Those were the last four recordings from 18 June 2022 and also the last for that month. 132 recordings are still left (plus those, in which we discussed the content of photo albums)
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Today's slightly belated #grandma recordings were mainly me reporting to her my latest research results and her commenting on them. It contained the fact, that her youngest brother weighed eight pounds at birth, while the next older one only had four. Apart from that, there was barely anything new.
Those were the last four recordings from 18 June 2022 and also the last for that month. 132 recordings are still left (plus those, in which we discussed the content of photo albums)
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Baby born with incredibly beautiful hair looks like he’s a younger version of Maui from ‘Moana’
http://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/baby-maui-hair-ex1/
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Baby born with incredibly beautiful hair looks like he’s a younger version of Maui from ‘Moana’
http://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/baby-maui-hair-ex1/
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Experts Say “Grandma Gardens” Are Trending—Here Are the 9 Best Plants to Grow https://www.allforgardening.com/1808092/experts-say-grandma-gardens-are-trending-here-are-the-9-best-plants-to-grow-2/ #CorrinaStellitanoAndrews #EdibleGardens #garden #gardening #GRANDMA #KatieTamony #KerrieKelly #KerrieKellyStudio #NeighborhoodGardens #TraditionalGarden #TraditionalGardens
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Experts Say “Grandma Gardens” Are Trending—Here Are the 9 Best Plants to Grow https://www.allforgardening.com/1808092/experts-say-grandma-gardens-are-trending-here-are-the-9-best-plants-to-grow-2/ #CorrinaStellitanoAndrews #EdibleGardens #garden #gardening #GRANDMA #KatieTamony #KerrieKelly #KerrieKellyStudio #NeighborhoodGardens #TraditionalGarden #TraditionalGardens
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Finally transcribed the #grandma recordings for this week. They mainly were about the present. Highlight was when she described, how her rollator started moving after being accidentally pushed by her back. She was "running" after it to catch it and somehow it only got faster. We were both laughing so hard in the recording. It was a real pleasure.
Turns out that the remaining 144 recordings were including the ones I had transcribed last week. With today's progress (and removing one, that only had me taking a note after a phone call), I'm now left with 136 recordings in total (plus the ones were we discuss photo albums). This last recordings were of April 2022, next is June 2022. The done pile meanwhile has 365 recordings of various lengths.
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Finally transcribed the #grandma recordings for this week. They mainly were about the present. Highlight was when she described, how her rollator started moving after being accidentally pushed by her back. She was "running" after it to catch it and somehow it only got faster. We were both laughing so hard in the recording. It was a real pleasure.
Turns out that the remaining 144 recordings were including the ones I had transcribed last week. With today's progress (and removing one, that only had me taking a note after a phone call), I'm now left with 136 recordings in total (plus the ones were we discuss photo albums). This last recordings were of April 2022, next is June 2022. The done pile meanwhile has 365 recordings of various lengths.
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Finally done with pre-sorting and naming a lot of audio recordings with different people up to the month that #grandma died. For the first time, I have the absolut count without any estimates: 144 grandma recordings left to transcribe from April 2022 until October 2023.
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Finally done with pre-sorting and naming a lot of audio recordings with different people up to the month that #grandma died. For the first time, I have the absolut count without any estimates: 144 grandma recordings left to transcribe from April 2022 until October 2023.
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@renardboy Example of when I didn't feel like #smoking:
When I was doing rounds of sports with different people (hopping) and everything fit into place itself / skipped the bad stuff... #movie, #gaming, #art, #concert etc.
But as soon as I don't have healthy things or people around there was less to do and different #limited #level of #focus. Even #gardening & visiting #grandma is better.
Also "fight your demon" as the focus seems to be the way & big part of fwd attacking life or smoking.
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@renardboy Example of when I didn't feel like #smoking:
When I was doing rounds of sports with different people (hopping) and everything fit into place itself / skipped the bad stuff... #movie, #gaming, #art, #concert etc.
But as soon as I don't have healthy things or people around there was less to do and different #limited #level of #focus. Even #gardening & visiting #grandma is better.
Also "fight your demon" as the focus seems to be the way & big part of fwd attacking life or smoking.
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Belated #grandma recording (and then on the other such a long one, that it could count for this week as well 🤔)
Sad highlight might have been about her uncle Emil Hercher (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-33, the one with the incredible flight from being a prisoner of war): After the death of his wife, grandma's mother took care of him at his home for several months. When grandma visited her there for Christmas, her mother locked him in in the living room, since he "doesn't need to hear everything we talk". When grandma left, she saw him laying on the couch with a sad face. She was sure, he was looking forward to spending some time with her as well.
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Belated #grandma recording (and then on the other such a long one, that it could count for this week as well 🤔)
Sad highlight might have been about her uncle Emil Hercher (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-33, the one with the incredible flight from being a prisoner of war): After the death of his wife, grandma's mother took care of him at his home for several months. When grandma visited her there for Christmas, her mother locked him in in the living room, since he "doesn't need to hear everything we talk". When grandma left, she saw him laying on the couch with a sad face. She was sure, he was looking forward to spending some time with her as well.
