last night i spoke to my parents (as i do every sunday) so this morning when kelly handed me his cell phone and said, "it's your mom", i knew it wouldn't be good news. i've become pretty familiar with the bad news phone call since living abroad. and even throughout university. but it doesn't make it any easier.
anyway, back to today's phone call. turns out that my great uncle bud passed away in his sleep on saturday night. i know it's a nice way to go but it was unexpected so that makes it a bit hard to swallow. back in the day, maybe 20 years ago or more, uncle bud had like a triple by-pass or something crazy and then lived until now so i guess that's pretty good. on saturday night he was at his friend's camp and thankfully spent the night there. he went to bed early because he wasn't feeling good and when his friend went to wake him up in the morning, he had passed away.
i'm thankful that he went peacefully. and i'm thankful that he was with someone when it happened. i'm thankful that i saw him this past summer when i was home and that we had dinner together.
there is no service, as per his wishes. my dad and aunt have gone to take care of everything today. i'm thinking of them. and thinking of uncle bud today.
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