the year my universe changed

Looking at it objectively, 2008 was not a good year for me.
My dad died on Monday 21 July, 6 pm.
And then my grandmother died, Monday 15 December, 12.30 am.

But good things happened too.
I met my love, on an autumn evening in May, at the Paperback Bookshop accompanied by Russians.


(Title borrowed from the 1986 science teleseries, The Day the Universe Changed, by James Burke. I used to watch this instead of doing my physics homework in VCE)