Rambling thoughts

Today's Saying

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag,

Monday is a good day to just pour out some rambling thoughts.

Rambling thought one.

I went to see my lung specialist last Wednesday and got the bad news I was anticipating. My lungs are deteriorating at a much faster rate than we had originally expected. They now have half of the capacity they had six months ago. We are trying some new powerful medicine to see if we can slow down or stop the deterioration.

Rambling thought two.

If we can’t slow down the rate. Very shortly we will close up the dragon’s blog and ask them to leave. They get on my nerves.
Shortly after that I will quit doing both Quilly and Raven’s words.
Then I will ask Thom to take over Portrait of Words.
I will try to keep up Pigeon Falls until January. Then it may slide into the mist from which it came so long ago.
I will be doing less visiting of other blogs.

Rambling thought three

I don’t want you to think I’m whining. A little over four years ago my family gathered in Marquette waiting for me to die. Since then I have had four very wonderful years for which I am very thankful. This blog and all the bloggers I have met through it have added much to that time.

Rambling Thought Four

I will begin identifying my auto-posts with this symbol.

Find then the giver of the curse.
She alone can restore the balance.
But she must not know it is her’s.
Or lost forever they will be

Chief Ican and Eugene went up the trail to the old lady/gypsy’s house this morning. The group is hopeful that they will be back tomorrow with good news. They even dare to hope that sometime this week they will be back in 2009.
Henri Yelland returned this morning on the milk train. He went to Marquette because he wanted to meet his great great grandfather , Richard Yelland. He had known that he probably shouldn’t do it but he had heard the family stories and seen the couple of grainy pictures they had of him and he just wanted to meet him. Henri had a good cover story. Richard’s older brother Alfred Yelland had settled in New York and had a son about his age named Henri. He would claim to be that Henri coming for a visit. He was sure he knew enough of the family history to pull it off.
And the visit went very well. He saw the great mine where his great great grandfather was a shift boss and the boarding house his great great grandmother ran. He met his great grandfather who was four and spent some time playing with him. They were wonderful, kind people.
Much too soon he found himself on the train back to Pigeon Falls. It was then that he remembered visiting his great grandfather in the hospital as he was dying. His great grandfather looked at him and said “ I remember your playing with me when I was just a little kid. “
At that time he thought the remark made no sense but now?