April 6th - MY day ... my 25202nd day!
Goddamn! I just racked up another year! Most people my age just hum and hope nobody notices - but not me. I like my age although it surprises me and it's hard to believe I'm 69. (No smartass comments about the digits, s'il vous plait
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I first encountered his life's story when I was an 18 yr old Canadian, away from home for the first time, surrounded by the wonders of Bristol and Britain. Where the hinges on the gate to my 'digs' were older than the city I now live in. I lived a few blocks from the magnificent St. Mary Redcliffe church, Chatterton's 'playground', that stimulated his muse. It was so easy to understand how that lovely architecture could transport him back to the 15th century, as it transported me back to Chatterton's 18th century.
When I look at my sons, both our own and the ones we 'borrowed', and watched as competent and loving men emerged from the challenges of youth, I continue to be fascinated - and saddened for those who were ignored.
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In these 'Google days' it is so easy to quickly research things without delving into old biographies of Keats in my bookshelves.
Chatterton was no stranger to the 'pleasures of women' in the last two years of his life - it was in fact a factor in his early death. He was treating himself with laudanum and arsenic and overdid it, it seems. But he had no enamorata to treat him in his illness as Keats did with his beloved Fanny. What a difference it might have made!
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here's hoping for many more healthy ones.
Huggszzzz to you
Kisses to AGM
Luv ya both
p/s---I know I owe you an "e" *hangs head in shame*
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WOW - do you believe how long ago our first communications were? An impressive man has emerged, as I knew would happen.
Much love from Tom & Sandra - AGP & AGM
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Another birthday approaches ... I hope to hear from you
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I hate powerpoint. It's mainly because people use it utterly wrongly but my dislike has taken a new angle since EDF have been making me create presentations on it during my placement.
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I've always used ppt for appropriate (of course) illustrations - and never as a stupid point-listing. I chuckled at Kieran's account about his father's waiting for some fund-seeking presenter to load up the projector and laptop and then un-plugging it before the poor slob begins.
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Like some of you other readers, I'd sure as hell like to see what you mean by a good power point presentation. My undergraduate education has jaded me, and for the most part I come down on the side of Kieran's father. That thing just encourages sloppy organization and dull-to-the-point-of-agony presentations.
I'll have to remember not to get bored, or maybe just not really retire. Fading away from lack of anything to do or think about is one of those things that scares me, probably more so than dropping dead from a heart attack.
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I forbid you to retire! Or drop dead.
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