Photo below is one composed by Daughter and Norma some years ago. Poem and background machineries were committed by me --scrap wood, words, fun.
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What this has to do with healing is exemplified by recent experience with protracted drought and pandemic. I hadn't had so many dear neighbors and friends drop dead since the Vietnam War. We of that generation called it euthanasia, and were much pleased and surprised when Nixon (of all people!) pulled youth out of Asia.
Enough. There's some sadness in this post. Although I'm reading my favorite humorists while recuperating, I also sneak into Chas. Bukowski; "...those who escape hell, however, never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that."
I have also exercised my addled brain on history; lately studying Henry VIII, a monarch of the Tudor family --replaced in1603 by the Fourdoors. Carriages got longer. Good night.
I'm glad you are back, the blog world is a poorer place when you're absent. How's your sats?
ReplyDeleteGlad to be back,Doc. O2 at 92 to 97 percent, depending on what I'm doing or not doing. I have 2 oximeters that don't argue much and sats that. Your compliment and caring are welcome. Thanks.
DeleteDear Geo., in your text I read the word "recuperate" and wonder...and am a bit worried... look it up in my dictionary, but it means what I suspected. So: I hope you are getting better!
ReplyDeleteI grasp the wordplay of T(wo)udors and Fourdoors but had to exercise my brain for it. :-)
The best wishes to you and your family! Britta
Dear beautiful Britta , from [L.recuperare; pref. re-
Delete+ a word of unknown origin. Cf.{Recuperate}.1. To get or obtain again; to win back; to regain. [1913 Webster] . I think you got it right. All best wishes to you!
Ooooh. Tudors and Fourdoors. I can't take it!
ReplyDeleteDear Mimmylynn, 2-door, 4-door: there's so much history this far into the future, we must get used to such things.
Deleteok the tudor joke made me spit tea.
ReplyDeleteAs a longtime unionist, I am proud to have been of service.
DeleteMy mind is slow and weary, Geo - - it took me a few moments to "get" the euthanasia remark (now I'm smiling).
ReplyDeleteWe're all in our own private realms of hell and I often feel that if I ever escape I'll be too traumatized to talk about it.
I hope your escape and healing process is a complete success. My positive thoughts and best wishes are with you always. Take care.
Dear Jon, even (parenthetical smiling) rewards me. Your success in spirit and smiling likewise encourage others, and me. As to healing, I look hopefully toward my 73rd escape from the gallows this year. You take care too.
DeleteYour Tudor/fourdoor joke was classic. But I want to know who is your favorite humorist?
ReplyDeleteDear Jeff, I have several: Moms Mabley possessed a quality affection from stage to me--gentle, sad, devoted to her audience, then suddenly burst into or out of song with a line that healed the whole house in relief and laughter or heartfelt social message. I miss her.
DeleteAnother favorite is MarkTwain, who made his readers not only laugh, but instructed them and made them feel loved. My list could go on and on, but those humorists who are kind and sharp are all on it.
I spent quite a lot of time last night looking up British history in a vain attempt to get the joke . . . to come here today and find out I was barking up the wrong tree! lol
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry for your losses in this age of Covid. At first it hit randomly and now with the omicron variant it's more likely to hit only the vulnerable in a population; either way it has been a sobering and unhappy time. Over half of the deaths in Nova Scotia since the pandemic began have occurred since restrictions were lifted a couple of months ago. I understand the economic and mental health impacts of keeping restrictions in place indefinitely, but clearly they made a difference. I hope you feel fitter and stronger as each day goes by, Geo. My best to you and Norma and your family.
Dear Jenny, It's 1:30 in the morning and I have been masked and gloved throughout the day --dismayed at the number of people who are not.. How can they not understand that masks aren't meant to protect them from what's out there, but others from microbes expectorated by THEM? Thanks for encouragement, and all my best to you.
DeleteThucydides would be dismayed, these centuries later.
DeleteAgreed, Mike, but he had a gift for recuperative understatement. A favorite quote:“...a collision at sea will ruin your entire day.”
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Sending gentle care, and a raucous laugh for the Fourdoors xx
ReplyDeleteCare and laughter much appreciated. All best wishes
DeleteSorry for the loss of neighbors and friends. We are glad to see you back at the blog stand. Be well.
ReplyDeleteThanks dear Tom, hope you're coping with these strange times. We've amassed around 10+ confused but mutually supportive cats in the rafters of the pole-barn bays these past 2 years. Norma keeps a big bowl of water out there and feeds them at four. Their humans have disappeared because they couldn't help it. It's hot and polluted here --Sept. and still getting temps over 105. Tom, I worked hop farms as a teen, then gardened public places over 35 years. I never had hay fever 'til 2017. Now I can't go outside more than a minute before it hits. There's moogiedoin's on our planet. Theories? Insights?
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