Hugs from me Lizzie Val xx > Thanks, everyone for your kind messages. Edda's funeral is tomorrow > (Wednesday) so some warm supportive Trivvie vibes for Shona would help. > ... > Lizzie > > Subject: Re: [TRIVVIES] Sad News > > That's sad, Lizzie . . . so sudden, all feelings are left in turmoil. > Hugs, > Jennifer > > On News of a Friend's Sudden Death > by Felix Dennis 2002 > > How thin the cloth, how fine the thread > That cloaks the living from the dead; > How narrowly, from breath to breath, > We plait our rendezvous with death. > > How swift the tenant flees the gate; > The landlord's writ, come soon or late, > Foreclosing slum or stately hall, > Hard Bailiffs at His beck and call. > > How feather-light the feeble spark > That shields us from the greedy dark; > Unjessed our souls like falcons fly! > How weak the lure, how wide the sky! > > > lizzie wrote: >> Just had a call from my stepdaughter to say that her Mum (the first Mrs >> Calar) died suddenly a few days ago. A ruptured aortic aneurism. She was > 66, >> a year older than me. I'm sitting here in shock. My poor wee lassie! > There >> is nothing I can say to her . and tomorrow would have been Calar's > birthday >> too, and we always find that difficult. >> >> Can't write any more now. I'm going to make some cocoa and drink it under >> the frosty night sky. I'll watch the starlight over the hills and think >> of >> the elves conducting my predecessor on her way to the West. Her true >> name >> was Edda, same as the great Norse epics. Tolkien would have liked that. >> >> Lizzie >> > > > . > . > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message