Sun Trine Saturn

I found out this morning from my younger sister that our older sister had died. It wasn't a surprise. I knew she'd had a stroke late last week and had been unresponsive, but that was all I heard for three days.

We are not a close-knit family, if the noun can even be applied. I didn't see my mother and father in the same room together until my older brother got married in 1962, when I was 17 and had to be a bridesmaid. 

"Stolid" would be the word for my appearance at that wedding.