103 is good enough for me. Thank you.
I'm not sure how old he is in this. I mean even to a rough approximation. I
rather think it's emotional as much as, what shall I say?...medical. But
also I have little idea how old anyone might be when old all those years
ago and almost off the map. I don't think many skeletons of very old people
have been found there.
I read earlier today of a Cornish saint I hadnt come across before. Came
from Pembrokeshire, what we now call that, which was it seems an Irish
colony in the "dark ages". Anyway, he spread his cloak on the waves to form
a raft and sailed to Cornwall, him and his cow on a cloth raft.
It'd age anyone.
Can't remember his name. He founded the church at Degibna near Helston.
That's one i think I never sought out.
Anyway, thank you for your response. I thought the readers here deserved a
break from montages etc
L
On 10 September 2014 16:48, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oh my aching bones, L. Felt there. I didnt know he lived to be 103...
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> D
> On Sep 10, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
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> > I am now almost without energy.
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> > Sometimes I twitch! Even walk a little.
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> > But then I'm like an ageing pet, spending
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> > much of its life resting or quite asleep.
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> > I say I'm well, lying in my own dirt,
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> > keeping the truth hidden by camouflage.
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> > I am without address or voice; will less;
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> > no more than light upon a rock, a glint
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> > without the power of a spark, flameless
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> > yet self-consuming; that which might have been -
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> > as leaves may roll themselves, fall, crumble
> >
> > to dust, not even knowing combustion
> >
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