Comments on: The Slippery Slope of Mortality

By: Curt

Curt — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:34:59 +0000

Egads! So this happened, what, within a day or two of my visit? And I would have been left with the somewhat unsettling thought that, after something like 15 or 20 years’ absence, I finally come to visit you mere hours before your untimely demise from a wayward Dorito! Don’t scare me like that, Fred!

All kidding aside, I’m glad you’re alright. We’ll take the Mason jar under advisement, but I doubt you’re going anywhere soon. Actually I had a similar experience not all that long ago. At home, all alone in the kitchen, trying desperately to reroute a too-rapidly-consumed cheese cracker, I remember thinking, “Are Kitty and Claire actually going to come home from the barn to find me lying here dead from choking on my lunch? Forty-something years on this planet and THIS is how it’s supposed to end for me? I don’t think so.” I believe I actually punched myself in the solar plexus a few times and finally got it going down the right tube.

Like you’re always telling us, Fred: slow down. That goes for meals as well.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:57:49 +0000

I like the Mason jar, and the request that we come and wrap our arms around one of those big trees now and then. I believe I feel about trees as you do, so I think that is indeed the way to be comforted and uplifted.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:17:06 +0000

Yes, the occasional brush against the thin veil can be a good thing, as you’ve shown us with your beautiful reflection. We don’t welcome it but when it happens and we survive, yahoo. I especially like the Mason jar at the base of the poplars.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:23:48 +0000

“Love you, old man.” Quote from Nate

INDEED!

By: nate

nate — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:54:02 +0000

Guess we all need a little Stupid in our lives — feeds our souls in ways that Careful never can. That said, I’m not sure which admonition to offer (but I’ll admit the former is my gut response after reading of your Goose Creek exploits today…):

Be careful, stupid!
Be stupid, careful!

Love you, old man.

By: millie

millie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:28:47 +0000

Fred so glad you are ok. don’t be doing that again. but so scary, especially being alone. TAKE CARE. millie

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:36:29 +0000

You do something long enough and it becomes involuntary in a way. Having retired from over thirty years of heavy construction has not lessened that ingrown safety mindedness.

First thing that hit me: “Dang, Fred! Be careful! That’s a violation!”

Sure glad you’re OK, Buddy.

P.S.: By the way, the first question on an Accident Report Form is “What could have been done to avoid this injury?”.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:15:07 +0000

Something about the melange of the fall season, the dawning of one’s own middle age, and relentless march of aging parents is shifting my thinking a bit from that of explorer to curator…

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:51:27 +0000

Scary Fred – we take our lives for granted – my mum called me last night and told me that she thought she would die in the night – no call yet – and said good bye. In a way any night could be our last and maybe we don’t pay enough attention to life?

Good to have you here