November 17, 1929 - August 2, 2005
I have had a bad month. August has officially sucked right from the beginning. My grandmother, "Memaw", died suddenly on the 2nd. (That's "Mem" like in the word "memory", not Mee-Maw.) Luckily, I was with her at her bedside when she died. I cannot think of anything more personal than being with someone at their death. It was one of the saddest, weirdest, and most beautiful things I have ever experienced. I miss her terribly. She was one of the coolest chicks around, truly a magical woman.
So, it's taken me a few weeks to get back to feeling okay. I'm more angry than anything right now, mostly because I expected her to be around for another 15-20 years. I wanted my children to know her, as I knew my great-grandmother. Memaw is wrapped up in almost all of my childhood memories, and without her, it's like all of that stuff is gone. In an ambitious attempt at holding on to everything about her that I can, I have decided to make a little video documentary about Memaw. I have actually been planning to start it for a few months now, beginning to get some interviews on video. Luckily, I was able to capture an hour long interview of her the weekend before she died. She told some stories of when she was a little girl, stories of how her parents met, wonderful stories. I have a digital video camera, so I'm able to upload to my computer and edit with Pinnacle software. I'm planning to have it completed in a year or so. I woud like to interview as many people in the family as possible to get some good Memaw-memories on tape. Then there's the scanning of old photos, and all of the editing. Definitely not a weekend project.
