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L O W L A N D S - L  -  31 August 2007 - Volume 01
Song Contest: lowlands-l.net/contest/ (- 31 Dec. 2007)
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Events" 2007.08.30 (02) [LS]

Sympathy from all of us.

Paul Finlow-Bates

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From: R. F. Hahn < sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Events

Folks,

To bring the rest of you up to date on what Arend reported in Drenthe Low
Saxon yesterday, please find my English translation below.

Sterkte, beste Arend!

Reinhard/Ron

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Jan ...

Yesterday I had to take my brother to a hospice.

It was a hard trip to take, but it could no longer be helped. He had been
living alone at home and he was no longer familiar with it. There are
metastases in Jan's right arm, in his chest and in his hip. On top of it,
Jan has advanced-stage Alzheimer's disease, and he doesn't understand why he
has to leave his home and why he can't go back. "But there isn't anything
wrong with me, is there? When will we go back home then?" Those are the
types of questions he'd ask. And when you explain to him that he's terribly
ill he'd be quiet for a moment and would then say, "That's too bad ... How
much longer do I have left to live?" The only answer we'd manage to give him
is "Not a lot longer, Jan." And then you'd watch him pondering this. And
then he'd say, "So are we going back home now?"

Old Man

Autumn coloring trees,
wrinkles drawing worries
and eyes asking about yesterday.
Thoughts falling silent
in autumn leaves.

Now is gone,
then's coming back.
Twigs rocking gently

Back and forth.
Back and forth.

Lost in today,
longing for then,
for Dad and Mom
and the path along the canal.

Twigs rocking gently.

For him in vain now ...

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