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I have a frined in that situation. It is sadder than sad - it's the knowing that is depressing. Andrew 2008/11/7 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> > 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 >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > We now know that 95 per cent of the universe is made of the something other > than those 12 particles. And we have very little idea what the other 95 per > cent is, which is kind of embarrassing. > > Brian Cox > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/