APOLOGY WHAT A FOOL I WAS… ‘I AM NOT THE EARTH AND SKY”
alan skeoch
May 19, 
2024
2024
pics taken by Paul and Bryce
I talked too much at our May 2024 meeting of the Castlefield Institute and
would like to apologise for doing so. My last five months have
been awful. I babbled on about health care and left little room for
others. 16 days experience while Bryce had spent most of his
life working in hospitals.
Marjorie arrived late due to our terrible traffic density. and we perched on
Boulders in Marvi’ s front yard. Then Marvi, Bryce, Paul got soft chairs for us.
Neighbours must have thought marvi had been evicted…and had gang connections.
I asked Bryce about his car which he loved “Sold it.” That short comment
is the reason for this apology Bryce just got back from a world tour
and suffered from a a bad bout of Covid 19…both of which were more in line with the ‘civil dicussions’ expected at our meetings.
Others
Wilf was not asked about his recent hospitalization .
Sam has arthritic shoulders
that are painful yet he took the time to visit me twice at Trillium bringing
cookies and gingerale.
John Myers had a book he wanted to discuss — our reason for meeting
John Wardle bought a cake for us to eat (without gratitude)
Milton Israel was absent…why?
Marvi when asked about her role as a caregiver for John Ricker made
pic by Paul Russell *
the amusing comment that “he was stubborn’. We missed that chance
to discover an amusing facet of John Ricker’s personality,
Instead I interjected with drivel about adult diapers.
Sorry
Which reminded me about a song from My Fair Lady.
Eliza (singing):
What a fool I was, what dominated fool,
to think that you were the earth and the sky,
What a fool I was, What an elevated fool,
What a mutton-headed dote was I!
No, my reverberated friend,
you are not the beginning and the end.
Professor Higgins (speaking):
You impetant hussy there’s not an idea in your head or a word in your mouth that I haven’t put there.
Eliza (singing):
There’ll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.
There’ll be fruit on the tree.
And a shore by the sea.
There’ll be crumpets and tea without you.
Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you.
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain,
even that will remain without you.
I can do without you.
You, dear friend, who taught so well,
You can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.
They can still rule with land without you.
Windsor Castle will stand without you.
And without much ado we can all muddle through without you.
Professor Higgins:
You brazen hussy,
Eliza (singing):
Wihtout pulling it the tide comes in,
without your twirling it the Earth can spin,
Without your pulling it, the tide comes in
Without your twirling it, the earth can spin
Without your pushing them, the clouds roll by,
If they can do without you, ducky, so can I
I shall not feel alone without you
I can stand on my own without you
So go back in your shell
I can do bloody well
Without…
What a fool I was, what dominated fool,
to think that you were the earth and the sky,
What a fool I was, What an elevated fool,
What a mutton-headed dote was I!
No, my reverberated friend,
you are not the beginning and the end.
Professor Higgins (speaking):
You impetant hussy there’s not an idea in your head or a word in your mouth that I haven’t put there.
Eliza (singing):
There’ll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.
There’ll be fruit on the tree.
And a shore by the sea.
There’ll be crumpets and tea without you.
Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you.
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain,
even that will remain without you.
I can do without you.
You, dear friend, who taught so well,
You can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.
They can still rule with land without you.
Windsor Castle will stand without you.
And without much ado we can all muddle through without you.
Professor Higgins:
You brazen hussy,
Eliza (singing):
Wihtout pulling it the tide comes in,
without your twirling it the Earth can spin,
Without your pulling it, the tide comes in
Without your twirling it, the earth can spin
Without your pushing them, the clouds roll by,
If they can do without you, ducky, so can I
I shall not feel alone without you
I can stand on my own without you
So go back in your shell
I can do bloody well
Without…