I received the rather sad news one week ago that my grandfather passed away in his sleep. A wonderful man, endlessly humble, and a great role model for all, I will truly miss him. A testament to his great life, so many people turned out for the wake, funeral, and the customary "Irish wake" post-funeral. So many thanks to all of my family members for making the trip home so warm and welcoming filled with great times and stories.
My uncle Joe commented that my blog makes him laugh because it reads like I talk. True to form, i will faithfully keep on in this voice for my maybe 10 readers out there in the inter-web or whatever. The one thing I really enjoyed about the whole weekend home was how much older everyone gets and how much better then conversation is now that we're older. It's like now that I have graduated college, I've joined some special "real world adult" club where I talk on the same plane as everyone else. In addition to the better conversation with my aunts and uncles, I love getting to know my older and younger cousins better. There are 16 of us now, and its almost half who are in high school and above. We can all talk about more interesting and different things, like music and movies and TV and such. It's a little tough to talk about new music with cousins who think new music is Miley Cyrus but now we talk about mash ups and such. On a side note, I feel like everyone I talk to now about music I try to sell mash ups on (but seriously...check out hathbanger above, it's so worth it).
Ok, enough of this baring my soul to the blog-o-sphere. Here are some highlights from my brief visit to the East Coast.
the first night of family time
impromptu visit to jmu--culture shock with fall color on 66
continuing shock with rain clouds--haven't seen them in two months
more clouds-i think this is on 81
finally arrived at jmu, obligatory sign photo op
this is real fall color
school pride. go dukes.
the donohoe kids. all grown up.
the grandkids=16 + grandma. from 25 all the way down to 2.
the crazy awesome sunset on the way home from the wake. god was definitely celebrating that ray donohoe joined him in heaven.so returning to normal life has been a little daunting, even overwhelming. i am super fortunate to have an amazing roommate, a great church to go to, and a new hobby. I have made the recent decision to forego buying a surfboard at this moment in lieu of a kick ass new camera. I haven't played around with it yet, but now that my only responsibility is work, my days off need some excitement. I am committing to a hobby, and am very excited about it. so san diego, watch out, my new nikon is coming for ya.
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