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Date Posted: 09:10:17 11/01/02 Fri
In reply to:
Willie
's message, "My First Halloween" on 01:19:09 11/01/02 Fri
Willie, You are the only one who can write the experiences and the memorial to Maureen. You've got so much in you to tell, and I think it's obvious to all of us that it needs doing, as your vignettes appear. The power of the truth and the tenderness in your words is incredible my friend. Make them count for others.
Angh
>Not exactly my first Halloween last night, of course,
>but the first one that's been observed since Maureen,
>my mother died. In 2001 we were too fresh from the
>funeral arrangements to bother, but this year I found
>myself wrapping bundles of sweets in little clingfilm
>packets...
>
>It wasn't until I had a large bowlful that I
>remembered the reason I packeted them was so that my
>mother could distribute them easily. I could have
>just mixed them up and tossed handfuls to the kids
>without any bother. Old habits.
>
>Anyhow, most are gone this morning. Dad was saying
>that there were two more lots of callers after I'd
>gone home around 7:00 p.m. I think Kathleen, our
>lodger, must have taken some too, as suggested. She's
>off to Wexford this weekend to look up some friends.
>Interestingly, her vegetarianism won't let her eat the
>marshmallows. "There's definitely gellatin in those,"
>she says.
>
>Las night Brig and I rented out "Iris" on video. The
>subject of the movie, which won an Oscar for Dame Judi
>Dench, is Alzheimers. As a movie it was okay, but
>despite Niles from "Frasier"'s earnest speech about
>the condition (repeated at the end of the video,
>presumably in case we forgot about it by then!), it
>had only about 1% of the reality of the disease in it,
>in my opinion. Incontinence was barely, and almost
>invisibly alluded to, and while the character of Iris
>had the form of dependant disease that mnostly had her
>glued to the elbow of her husband and carer, little
>was made of the violent episodes, which would have
>explained his frustrated outbursts better. I suppose
>you have to think of the sensibilities of your
>audience.
>
>So that was Halloween this year. Lots of bangers
>(louder every year, of course), too much beer, and the
>bonfire gets smaller on an annual basis. Not long til
>Christmas....
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