{"id":420,"date":"2026-05-06T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emptyhope.com\/finality\/?p=420"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:48:40","slug":"its-your-halo-slipping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emptyhope.com\/finality\/2026\/05\/06\/its-your-halo-slipping-down\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Your Halo Slipping Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It sure has been a minute.  Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday the first event happened. I hope it is the last event but I fear there will be more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were in a good mood that day. They even had Cane&#8217;s. They love Cane&#8217;s. They had a good day at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We took them to the hospital. They were physically fine. They&#8217;re in care now. They will come home Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not okay. What can we even do? We locked everything sharp up, any kind of lighter, all the medicine, all the vitamins. We locked up a lot of shit. We threw a lot away.  The guns got locked up a few months ago when all of this lava started filling into the volcano. This was a small eruption and didn&#8217;t put anything in danger but what if the next one is worse? What if the volcano blows and takes out everything? I&#8217;ll be done. There will be no going on for me, I&#8217;ll be consumed by the volcanic eruption. For sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d get it if they were sad. But they seemed legitimately happy.  Joking around. Having fun. Playing a video game at one point.  Rode their bike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What can we do if the sky doesn&#8217;t get dark before it rains?  Just hailing out of a clear blue sky? What do we do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t even have any of the friends I once had. I think maybe one, the man from Missouri. And maybe the one in Tucson.  But even then, we talk 1\/900th as much as I&#8217;ve talked to close friends over the years. Wang seems to only be interested and only responds to or talks about Cameras. I&#8217;m happy he has a fixation. Is this aging? No friends anymore? I didn&#8217;t think it got this alone until they all started literally catching cases of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katy died. Shade died. Jackie died. Grungie died. Chris died. Grandma died but she made it into old age. Jami and Charlee rightfully cut me off from communication years ago. I say rightfully leaning the entire scale over in their favor which I don&#8217;t agree with but I&#8217;ve always been selfless. I&#8217;m a piece of shit, so why wouldn&#8217;t my kid feel like shit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What can I even do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there. It sure has been a minute. Again. Friday the first event happened. I hope it is the last event but I fear there will be more. They were in a good mood that day. They even had Cane&#8217;s. They love Cane&#8217;s. They had a good day at school. We took them to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ponderance","author_link":"https:\/\/www.emptyhope.com\/finality\/author\/emptyhope_fldf5w\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Hi there. It sure has been a minute. Again. Friday the first event happened. I hope it is the last event but I fear there will be more. They were in a good mood that day. They even had Cane&#8217;s. They love Cane&#8217;s. They had a good day at school. 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