{"id":26290,"date":"2024-05-19T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26290"},"modified":"2024-05-19T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T16:26:22","slug":"apology-what-a-fool-i-was-i-am-not-the-earth-and-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26290","title":{"rendered":"APOLOGY WHAT A FOOL I WAS… ‘I AM NOT THE EARTH AND SKY”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APOLOGY   WHAT A FOOL I WAS… ‘I AM NOT THE EARTH AND SKY\u201d<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
May 19, 2024<\/div>\n

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pics taken by Paul and Bryce<\/div>\n

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I talked too much at our May 2024 meeting of the   Castlefield Institute and<\/div>\n
would like to apologise for doing so.  My last five months have<\/div>\n
  been awful.    I babbled on about health care and left little room for<\/div>\n
others.   16 days experience while Bryce had spent most of his<\/div>\n
life working in hospitals.                                                                                            <\/div>\n

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Marjorie arrived late due  to our terrible traffic density.  and we   perched on<\/div>\n
Boulders in Marvi\u2019 s front yard.   Then Marvi, Bryce, Paul got soft chairs for us.<\/div>\n
Neighbours must have thought marvi had been evicted\u2026and had gang connections.<\/div>\n

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I asked Bryce about his car which he loved  \u201cSold it.\u201d  That short comment                            <\/div>\n
is the reason for this apology   Bryce just got back from a world tour <\/div>\n
and suffered from a a bad bout of Covid 19\u2026both of which were more in line with the \u2018civil dicussions\u2019 expected at our meetings.<\/div>\n

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 Others<\/div>\n

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Wilf was not asked about his recent  hospitalization .<\/div>\n
Sam has arthritic shoulders<\/div>\n
that are painful yet he took the time to visit me twice at Trillium bringing<\/div>\n
cookies and gingerale.<\/div>\n
John Myers had a book he wanted to discuss \u2014 our reason for meeting<\/div>\n
John Wardle bought a cake for us to eat (without gratitude)<\/div>\n

Milton Israel was absent\u2026why?
<\/span>Marvi when asked about her role as a caregiver for John Ricker made<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

pic by Paul Russell *<\/span><\/div>\n

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the amusing comment that \u201che was stubborn\u2019.   We missed that chance <\/div>\n
to discover an amusing facet of John Ricker\u2019s personality,<\/div>\n

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Instead  I  interjected with drivel about adult diapers. <\/div>\n

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Sorry<\/div>\n

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Which reminded me about a song from My Fair  Lady.<\/div>\n

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Eliza (singing):<\/span>
What a fool I was, what dominated fool,<\/span>
to think that you were the earth and the sky,<\/span>
What a fool I was, What an elevated fool,<\/span>
What a mutton-headed dote was I!<\/span>
No, my reverberated friend,<\/span>
you are not the beginning and the end.<\/span>

Professor Higgins (speaking):<\/span>
You impetant hussy there’s not an idea in your head or a word in your mouth that I haven’t put there.<\/span>

Eliza (singing):<\/span> <\/span>
There’ll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.<\/span>
There’ll be fruit on the tree.<\/span> <\/span>
And a shore by the sea.<\/span> <\/span>
There’ll be crumpets and tea without you.<\/span>

Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you.<\/span>
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain,<\/span> <\/span>
even that will remain without you.<\/span>
I can do without you.<\/span> <\/span>

You, dear friend, who taught so well,<\/span>
You can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.<\/span> <\/span>

They can still rule with land without you.<\/span>
Windsor Castle will stand without you.<\/span> <\/span>
And without much ado we can all muddle through without you.<\/span>

Professor Higgins:<\/span>
You brazen hussy,<\/span> <\/span>

Eliza (singing):<\/span>
Wihtout pulling it the tide comes in,<\/span> <\/span>
without your twirling it the Earth can spin,<\/span>
Without your pulling it, the tide comes in<\/span> <\/span>
Without your twirling it, the earth can spin<\/span> <\/span>
Without your pushing them, the clouds roll by,<\/span> <\/span>
If they can do without you, ducky, so can I<\/span> <\/span>
I shall not feel alone without you<\/span> <\/span>
I can stand on my own without you<\/span> <\/span>
So go back in your shell<\/span> <\/span>
I can do bloody well<\/span> <\/span>
Without…<\/span><\/div>\n

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APOLOGY   WHAT A FOOL I WAS… ‘I AM NOT THE EARTH AND SKY\u201d alan skeoch May 19, 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}