I hope you do, too, Stephen. But bad things, loss, can happen. Sharon
is visiting her mother, who is losing words, memory, & knows it, a sad
situation....
Thanks for the comments....
Doug
On 5-Nov-08, at 8:28 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Doug, earlier this evening, I was dipping into prose pieces Pessoa -
> and your piece fits right in, in that sense of exploring absence
> when the present disappears!
>
> Makes me think of recent conversation with my relatively upbeat
> mother:
> "How are you doing, Mom?"
> "She is not inside there anymore."
> "What do you mean?"
> "I am useless."
>
> I hope I don't feel that emptied out when I am 92! Or, at least, I
> have the good dream life that you have here, Doug!
>
> Stephen
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