Thanks for the encouraging word, but you'd be surprised. After my last fall, on Sunday evening, I thought I had landed up against the wall. I was actually on the floor. It was totally dark and I hadn't a clue where I was. Someone had broken one of our cardinal rules here, which is never leave the basement door open, and I had been working in my study early one evening, and was the only one down on that level. I had forgotten that it starts getting dark early here these days, so when I shut off my study light, I couldn't see much. I had to cross through a corner of our family room in front of the basement door to reach the stairs up to the kitchen. I decided to turn around and turn on a light, as all I could see were the external windows that line our family room wall opposite me. Suddenly those windows "up-ended" and that's the only reason I knew I was falling. I thought, "oh well, no problem, the basement door's only a metre away and the worst that could happen is a bruised shoulder and maybe a dent in the door." But as it was open, I cartwheeled down the stairs, putting my head through the gyprock wall across from the bottom of the stairs (it was that wall that I thought I was propped against).
Oh well, the day wasn't a loss: My wife and I had earlier visited another ward where our daughter and son-in-law and grand-daughter (and my old boss and his family) live, to watch Shea, who will be 4 in a little less than a month, give her first sacrament talk (coached by her Mom). She was gorgeous, with her hair curled and her finest dress on -- just like a little doll. And goshdarnit, I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body..... [yeah, right] :-) "Elmer L. Fairbank" wrote: > At 12:17 11/12/2002 -0700, M Marc wrote: > > another > >aspect of this is that I lose my sense of where I am in space if I don't > >have enough visual or tactile clues, and don't know up from down. Often I > >don't realize I've even fallen until I feel the pain from the blow). > > Ah, my friend, come grovel in the mud with Till. Can't fall far from THAT > perch! > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland “Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on” – Winston Churchill Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author’s employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^^=============================================================== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===============================================================
