[stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob

[Jackie Williams]

Lynda,
While "Jackie" sits writing her poetry, refusing to check e-mail for several
days, "Lynda" is witnessing aspects of living and possible death in forms
she, (you) have not yet experienced with your loved companion. Your emphasis
on the word "through," tells us so graphically where your thoughts are.
You are doing so many things now to inform a community of this disease, and
cope, that for now, you may not find time to tend to the horror of it all,
and write your way through it. I join with you in believing that it is the
knowing of the combined thoughts and prayers from all those who truly care,
that will bring you  both through. Where it takes you will be uncharted
ground for your unique lives. 
I truly hope that an inclusion of one of the poems I wrote several months
before my brother's death, will not offend, but rather add to that sense
that horrors and howls are almost a rite of passage to events that
unexpectedly beset those who dance from happiness, and ride motorcycles, and
blow glass, and who prune high trees, and run nude in the desert, who
transplant tarantulas, and all measure of unusual things and are loved
desperately by someone. 

Howls from a Memory Care Cottage
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
					Dylan Thomas

Called Pick's disease,  it took away your brain.
So, howl, my gentle brother-put away.
That howl alerts the ones who care for you,
of loneliness and grief, for emptiness,
or need for help in all life's endless chores.
Almost inaudible, you still can say 
two siblings' names,  perhaps a "Yes," or "No."
In some stiff, stooped , and foreign shell, you move
away from any love sustained for you.
Or is it that you feel abandonment-
 that none of us will ever take you home?
Your howl, my brother, is-at night-my own.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 9:07 AM
To: newmanrl at cox.net; Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob

Thanks, robert. You all kind of know Bob from some of the things I have 
written - motorcycling, dancing in the kitchen on a winter day, opening the 
door for the "snow bunnies" and more.

Last night was a scene from a horror movie - I won't go into details but he 
was disoriented and confused, and took off the tubes that are connected to 
the "line" in his chest - an artery. Fortunately, he was found in time - but

it was the worst possible scene the nurse could imagine seeing when she took

a look into his room around 1:15 am.
My days and nights are filled with making plans for visiting and other 
things we have to do now - everything is centered around getting Bob well 
again and meeting the needs as they come up each day.  Thank you all for 
your prayers - for that is what will bring him through - and I do mean 
"bring him T H R O U G H - Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Prayers for our friend Lynda & her hubby Bob


>
> Lynda&Bob
>
> We do super enjoy your presents on this list! And yes, my first sentence
> referenced the two of you - Lynda&Bob --- note the two names are joined 
> via
> the & sign. And so I declare that combination to be a relationship
> designator similar to the placement of two names within a drawn figure of 
> a
> heart; these two people are in love, they are together.
>
> Our thoughts and strength are with you.
>
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
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