tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post7707694502658135221..comments2024-03-27T13:32:06.780-02:30Comments on The Other Side of Eighty: A Reluctant FarewellWisewebwomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-30126108437006345652014-01-08T12:49:43.909-03:302014-01-08T12:49:43.909-03:30All of us have these moments of optimism of the pa...All of us have these moments of optimism of the past for what could have been. This story is poignant for the portrayal of a confused soul who was human nevertheless and you have brought that out very well.Rummuserhttp://www.rummuser.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-18760552880467858682014-01-07T21:13:48.811-03:302014-01-07T21:13:48.811-03:30Thank you Cait and welcome to my world. I will che...Thank you Cait and welcome to my world. I will check you out now.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-17611064333767109912014-01-07T21:13:07.386-03:302014-01-07T21:13:07.386-03:30Hattie:
Yes, there's one in everyone's li...Hattie:<br /><br />Yes, there's one in everyone's life, I guess.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-6441383225552887062014-01-07T21:12:25.578-03:302014-01-07T21:12:25.578-03:30Friko:
I truly believe that was what held me back...Friko:<br /><br />I truly believe that was what held me back, I knew I would develop a distaste for him if I ever got closer.<br /><br />Yes, he's haunting me like I said above but it will evaporate.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-16130018786109081892014-01-07T21:11:00.742-03:302014-01-07T21:11:00.742-03:30SAW:
I do believe he thought I was.
Odd that he ...SAW:<br /><br />I do believe he thought I was.<br /><br />Odd that he is haunting me so.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-7975318058152616902014-01-07T21:10:18.449-03:302014-01-07T21:10:18.449-03:30Nick:
Isn't it our natures though to want mor...Nick:<br /><br />Isn't it our natures though to want more more more, even of people?<br /><br />I never want more stuff, I just want more of the inner lives, endlessly fascinating to me.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-7670922210722063832014-01-07T21:09:14.647-03:302014-01-07T21:09:14.647-03:30OWJ:
How little regard indeed many of us have for...OWJ:<br /><br />How little regard indeed many of us have for the memories of things past. How well you write of the spanking new house and the demolished older one.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-37862266676192355142014-01-07T21:08:13.185-03:302014-01-07T21:08:13.185-03:30Yes, Jo.
I do believe he was a man incapable of i...Yes, Jo.<br /><br />I do believe he was a man incapable of intimacy and lived his life very much on the surface. I suppose I fancy myself as carrying a key, privy to his secrets. Not so. Alas.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-45682339442672122012014-01-07T21:06:49.685-03:302014-01-07T21:06:49.685-03:30GM:
I think one of the issues for me is that smal...GM:<br /><br />I think one of the issues for me is that small talk is fine for a while but then I need more meat.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-68187279405020429412014-01-07T21:05:58.981-03:302014-01-07T21:05:58.981-03:30Lynda:
Loved the quote, thank you.
XO
WWW
PS I t...Lynda:<br /><br />Loved the quote, thank you.<br /><br />XO<br />WWW<br />PS I think I heard this one after a particularly bad breakup too and it helped to remember the good stuff.Wisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-78827144675736765782014-01-07T07:59:17.135-03:302014-01-07T07:59:17.135-03:30I am a fellow Irish 'soul' and quite by ch...I am a fellow Irish 'soul' and quite by chance I found your blog via Friko's this morning and what a treat for me. I have been reading a few of your older posts and found them so interesting, the black dog ones especially. And the book recommendations...wonderful. I have added you to my blog list.Cait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-40683432376537257392014-01-06T14:46:47.538-03:302014-01-06T14:46:47.538-03:30We have a friend very much like that. Sorry about ...We have a friend very much like that. Sorry about your friend's passing.<br />I too am up against the limitations of what I can do for others. Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297404386730167834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-20926983256300727202014-01-05T14:21:56.093-03:302014-01-05T14:21:56.093-03:30I have an idea I know how you feel.:
A bit guilty...I have an idea I know how you feel.:<br /><br />A bit guilty for not liking him better and making more of him? <br />Don’t beat yourself up; he doesn’t sound like the sort of person you would have liked better at closer quarters. <br /><br />Now that he’s gone, think of him occasionally, but I doubt that you’ll mourn him for very much or very long.<br /><br />He will become part of your personal folklore: "people I once knew".Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-74896774048985267022014-01-05T13:36:23.886-03:302014-01-05T13:36:23.886-03:30But it sounds like you did accommodate him and you...But it sounds like you did accommodate him and you were a friend to him. That's important.Secret Agent Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07564690116156754219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-67541333257751729942014-01-05T12:25:53.221-03:302014-01-05T12:25:53.221-03:30What Irene said. It sounds like there wasn't a...What Irene said. It sounds like there wasn't a lot you could have done for him because of his rather pernickety and fearful character. He was probably best left to himself to pursue his odd personal quirks.nickhttp://nickhereandnow.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-89371612134363528062014-01-04T21:42:31.013-03:302014-01-04T21:42:31.013-03:30I reread a comment above -
so many people come in ...I reread a comment above -<br />so many people come in and out of our lives, often we do not give<br />them a second thought until they are gone. <br />so true<br /> A neighbor 71 - who lives across the road from me passed away a few days before Christmas. His parents my only neighbors 35 years ago and when they passed away he built a huge home high on a hill with another wife and later his parents tiny home was torn down - sad...<br />I look out my window and see<br />the family cemetery where he was buried and have many thoughts of the past interaction<br />with his parents - had not thought of them in years..One Woman's Journey - a journal being written from Woodhaven - her cottage in the woods.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12548226150115102345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-23736025530105747492014-01-04T13:54:20.737-03:302014-01-04T13:54:20.737-03:30It is so very interesting the people who come in a...It is so very interesting the people who come in and out of our lives. Often we don't really give them a second thought until they are gone. I think it is human nature really....I know you provided him with some happiness during the time you were able to spend with him.<br /><br />JoMy Grama's Soulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10114089036939629527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-90077257900204240662014-01-04T06:49:12.780-03:302014-01-04T06:49:12.780-03:30For some people walking on the edge of our lives i...For some people walking on the edge of our lives is enough, not ready or wishing to bare their soul.Grannymarhttp://grannymar.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-36672502745946080692014-01-04T00:23:42.933-03:302014-01-04T00:23:42.933-03:30I read this wonderful quote today:
"Don'...I read this wonderful quote today:<br /><br />"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."<br />(Dr Seuss)<br /><br />Appropriate perhaps?Lyndahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05372513528828334944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-1307301889884435782014-01-03T23:39:09.960-03:302014-01-03T23:39:09.960-03:30LOL Irene, he did bear many crosses I do believe. ...LOL Irene, he did bear many crosses I do believe. I think his intentions were excellent and at times I felt he was desperately seeking an intimacy which he never had achieved. Except with his personal saviour.<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-88633230962113361332014-01-03T23:20:34.630-03:302014-01-03T23:20:34.630-03:30It sounds to me like he was too much of a complica...It sounds to me like he was too much of a complicated man for you to do much with, other than to be kind to, which you were. He was in 'God's hands,' wasn't he? And he did bear his cross freely. Irenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043376053971475659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-39820587626064018412014-01-03T22:54:32.912-03:302014-01-03T22:54:32.912-03:30Thanks Pauline for saying that. We always feel we ...Thanks Pauline for saying that. We always feel we have so much time than we do have. A human complaint.<br />I had resolved the next time I went to the post office I would drop in on him and surprise him. <br />Next times don't come.<br />XO<br />WWW<br />Wisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-11850211438044629872014-01-03T22:17:01.043-03:302014-01-03T22:17:01.043-03:30But you remembered him in writing here. Surely som...But you remembered him in writing here. Surely something of him knows and appreciates that.Paulinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14555472024981357622noreply@blogger.com