thefleet's Meanderings

Monday 10.13.2025

Got back from a long weekend in the Finger Lakes area of New York. I was visiting a friend with my mother. She lost her husband to the same cancer my mom has. We've become close over the years. We have a lot of things in common and she's been really good to me.

It was really interesting to see her house and the town she lives in. A new perspective on a person that I'd seen and talked to but not been able to see the life she lived from her home. I feel like visiting a persons home gives you a tiny window into their life. You can see a fleeting slice of what things must be like for them.

It broke my heart a little to meet her two sons that lost their father far too early. They are wiser and softer than most kids their age. They've been through a lot. They were kind like their mother.