I hate talking with men about history, cause they clearly don't like, actually think about it outside of obsessively memorizing random facts and geeking out over battles like it's the fucking NFL or something. Like tonight at dinner I was like "hey the Vietnam war was like fucked up and we still haven't acknowledged that as a nation" to which my stepdad responded by talking about radios and helicopters for forty five minutes.
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hey since i’m occasionally giving out adult advice. anyone wanna know my very adult and very boring and very sensible suggestion for grief gifts for friends and family when someone close to them dies
alright. this is shamelessly stolen from my godparents when they did this when my grandma passed about ten years ago, and since then i’ve been on both sides of this and it’s surprisingly thoughtful and useful. this is particularly important when people are like, in charge of funeral prep, but anyone who just heard someone close to them just died is gonna be in a certain headspace, so it probably works regardless. people are gonna be sending cards and flowers and other very nice, but ultimately useless gifts.
don’t do that. go to the grocery store and order one of those deli party platters. the ones with like, four different kinds each of meats and cheeses, maybe some sides, and veggies, and bread, and condiments. get the vegetarian version if you know they’re vegetarians. whatever. you know better than i how many people are gonna be eating it, but guess maybe, like, four day’s worth of food.
because, here’s the thing. cards and flowers are very nice, and remind you that you’re in people’s thoughts. but you know what you just. don’t even want to think about when someone dies? making dinner. going to the grocery store. ordering takeout. whatever. you don’t want to have to think about food. you just want to eat in between planning a funeral and working through your grief.
without getting too into it, when my grandma died, we were thrown for a loop. and we ate nothing but what was on that goddamned deli platter for days. because it was quick and easy and fresh and tasted good and we didn’t have to think about food. and ten years later, i don’t remember those cards or flowers, but i sure as hell remember the deli platter.
so next time someone’s going through something, when a family member or close friend just passed. go to your nearest grocery store, and if you can, walk a deli platter over to their place. as soon as you can after you hear. they may look at you weird when you hand it to them, but trust me, in the long run they’re gonna thank you.
Food helps. I don’t remember the cards & flowers. What I DO remember is the amazing lasagna somebody made me. It fed me for a week during a time when I was simply incapable of finding or preparing meals. The deli platter is an interesting twist on that and I’m filing that away for sure.
Not sure where you guys are from, but sending food is so incredibly common in the southern USA, it can actually be a good idea to check with the family to see if they have too much before you bring something.
When my uncle passed everybody in my aunt's community brought desserts. She lives in the south so of course food was the go-to but people kept bringing just cookies and brownies and cake and stuff...i don't know who the person was who made us a big potroast, but that person was a goddamn hero who fed us for three days.
“The Kinney family home has transformed into the latest flashpoint in the long-running battle between black-clad demonstrators and Portland Police Bureau officers, with authorities saying they are merely following judicial orders and rallygoers saying they must block gentrification.
‘Every trick that they use to displace the people from this neighborhood, they've used against my family,’ said Red House matriarch Julie Metcalf Kinney, whose family has been embroiled in a years-long eviction dispute involving the property, in a video posted on Instagram.
The incident began when Multnomah County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the 1890s-era home in the 4400 block of Mississippi Avenue around 5 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, in order to ‘re-secure’ the property where an eviction notice was first served in February.
Two members of the Kinney family were arrested during the early-morning confrontation, said Metcalf Kinney.
‘One of my sons is still not out, and my other son was injured really badly, they smashed his finger and his ring and then left them in a cell, freezing cold, like they do,’ she said mid-day. ‘This is a tactic they've used over and over again.’
In a statement, the Kinney family said officers ‘violently dismantled’ the camp and community kitchen surrounding the home, misgendered campers and entered the premise to destroy the interior.
‘This is totally unacceptable behavior,’ said William X. Nietzche, a resident and son of the Red House homeowners, who was arrested. Michael Kinney, a son of Metcalf Kinney, was also arrested and released from jail in the late afternoon, according to the statement.
‘The tactics we are facing, of sneaky and illegal foreclosure tactics, predatory banking and loans, elected judges who take campaign contributions from the real estate industry, coupled with violence from law enforcement and no real due process, have been used across this historically Black neighborhood to displace Black and poor people,’ said Metcalf.
[..] The family is seeking to raise $250,000 on GoFundMe, but has only garnered $41,000 so far.”
[Portland mayor vows to clear protesters' eviction blockade, 08-Dec-2020]
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