tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78285734103553273912024-03-05T04:28:02.695-04:00Field Days: A MiscellanyA day book of sorts.RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-14724130200003801422013-02-21T08:01:00.002-04:002013-02-21T08:04:37.069-04:00A Celebration of the life of Roger Field<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>A celebration of the life of Roger M Field March 2, 1945 to October 28, 2012 held at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on December 2, 2012. Roger was a poet, educator, administrator, son, brother, husband, father, and friend through out his life . He is loved, remembered and missed by all that knew him.</b></div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-87442241412020412592013-01-13T20:11:00.000-04:002013-01-13T20:11:52.309-04:00<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xpcmfvbdjc0flvu/x583rI0N87" target="_blank">Here</a> is an audio piece Roger recorded for OutFront on CBC. In the piece Rog talks about rowing, poetry, and being a school principal.<br />
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<br />RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-52910827536937170812012-12-15T20:02:00.001-04:002012-12-15T20:04:50.594-04:00Dad's Celebration Speech (Jon Eben Field)<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roger
Michael Field (b. March 2<sup>nd</sup>, 1945 – d. Oct. 28<sup>th</sup>, 2012)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Roger was many different ways for different
people. For some, he was the silent, patient listener; the person to whom they
could come and share their concerns and always find warm reception. He would
hold whatever the weight or load, so they could come to realize what they
needed was already within. For some, he was the writer who could discover the
beautifully apt word, phrase, or rhythm for expressing an emotion, meaning,
image, or sense. For others, he was the teacher who would calmly ask questions
until by dint of his focus and the warm sharing of his example, they came to
understand. For others still, he was the administrator who calmly held a school
together day in and day out, year after year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> My father was a person who embodied
kindness, patience, love, honesty, wisdom, humour, and brilliance. And now that
he is gone, there are days when the world feels a little emptier. But there are
also many, many more where his presence rings around us like the sparkle in his
blue, blue eyes. I had the privilege to know him as a listener, a writer, a
teacher, and, yes, even as an administrator. But through all these layers of
relations, he was always my father. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Recently, a friend of mine asked,
“What did you and your dad do?” and, for a moment, I was struck dumb. We did
not hunt or fish, play or watch sports, go canoeing or hiking, rebuild antique
cars, or any of the other things through which I imagine fathers and sons bond.
It took me several moments, but eventually I said, “We talked.” My father and I
had a conversation that filled my life. Dad was willing to have a conversation
with almost anyone about almost anything. He was open. And I feel uniquely
honoured to have had my conversation with Roger containing the degree of
intimacy he invited and breadth and range of awareness he offered. And I’m sure
you feel the same. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We spoke of art, poetry, meaning, beauty,
love, grief, and madness. We spoke of birds, of the “rightness” of a word, of
the joy of numbers, of possibility in life, and, of course, we spoke of death. My
father was an adventurer in life and words. And as you know, it was always a
pleasure to meet him wherever he was wandering because that is precisely where
he was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> In my mid-twenties, I experienced a
crisis. Let us speak truthfully, “I went crazy,” and ended up in a psychiatric
ward in the Abbey Lane Hospital. The dedication and resilience of my entire
family allowed me to return from those dark abysses. But early on, I remember Dad,
after working all day at Mt. Uniacke, would drive into the city, come up to my
room, and check me out of the ward. As we walked down to the “Summer Savoury”
cafeteria, I would try to convince him of all the terrible things I was certain
I had done. Walking by my side, holding my hand, he would patiently listen as we
picked out a muffin (lemon or blueberry) and a juice (always cranberry), and
then we would sit alone and talk. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Day after day, he would listen to
the stories I had concocted to explain why I felt so horribly. And at some
point in these conversations, he would say the same two things. First, he would
recite a line from bp nichol’s Martyrology that says humans are “approximate
and conditional.” And in the search for the certainty of my guilt, this
possibility kept me alive. And at the end of our conversation, when I tried to
convince him once more of my wrongdoings, he would calmly reply, “Jon Eben, I
think we will have to agree to disagree about this for today.” We continued to
have these conversations until I was as certain of who I was as he was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Roger’s greatest gift was his
attention. When he listened, he was nowhere else, and when he spoke, he spoke
to you alone. Dad was a gentle man with an immense reservoir of love and
fathomless patience, and if I learned anything from him, it is how being
present and aware allows others to be free. He was willing to get out of the
way and help however he could. His friends were given the gift of his loving
friendship. His family was given the gift of his brotherhood. My brother,
sister, and I received the gift of a very wise and present father. And my
mother was given his most passionate love. To finish, I would like to read the
very last poem Roger wrote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">One thing about being in this bed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">if this
is the place where I will die</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">is the
panorama of the view</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the
fact that you can tell</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">where
the sun is located</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">every
day that you can see</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">its rise
and set</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">and it
matters to me </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">to know
this</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">to be
located somehow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">on this
earth of ours</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">that we
ride around on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">until we
all arrive at</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">and come
to our own ends.</span></span></div>
RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-58920870357014452252012-12-10T16:05:00.001-04:002012-12-10T16:06:23.458-04:00Resolution No. 2943After the celebration on Dec. 2nd for Roger's life, Michele Raymond, MLA for Halifax Atlantic made a motion in the House for the following resolution. Thank you Michele for taking this action, it means a lot to our family.<br />
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<a href="http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C89/house_12dec03/#HPage4722" target="_blank">RESOLUTION NO. 2493</a></div>
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MS. MICHELE RAYMOND: Mr. Speaker, I hereby give notice that on a future day I shall move the adoption of the following resolution:</div>
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Whereas a large crowd assembled at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design yesterday, December 2nd, to remember the life of poet and teacher Roger Field, who was born in Bermuda in 1945 and died at Fergusons Cove, Nova Scotia, in November 2012; and</div>
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Whereas Roger, the second of seven sons, shared countless gifts with his family, friends, colleagues, students, staff, and newcomers in need during his years at Halifax's New Options School for adults, as principal of Uniacke District School, head of English at the Koc School in Istanbul, member of the Halifax Refugee Clinic, and teacher of professional English to design students at NSCAD; and</div>
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Whereas among Roger Field's many gifts was his unwaivering sense of the importance of every human life, a gift which he held lightly, with humanity and humility, but with immense and gentle determination;</div>
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Therefore be it resolved that this House recognize the life of Roger Michael Field and his contributions to the life of Nova Scotia, and express its condolences to his family.</div>
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Mr. Speaker, I request waiver of notice and passage without debate.</div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/people/speaker">MR. SPEAKER</a></span> <a href="http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C89/house_12dec03/#speaker0029"><span class="s1">«</span></a> <a href="http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C89/house_12dec03/#speaker0031"><span class="s1">»</span></a> : There has been a request for waiver.</div>
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It is agreed.</div>
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Would all those in favour of the motion please say Aye. Contrary minded, Nay.</div>
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The motion is carried.</div>
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The honourable member for Cape Breton North.</div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-10358339714572995002012-12-10T15:59:00.000-04:002012-12-10T15:59:25.909-04:00October Song: A Poem for Rog by Sylvia Hamilton
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<span lang="ES-AR">Sil and I remember the times we shared with
Roger and Lorraine in Istanbul very well indeed. The weekends at Ortakoy have
stayed with us unlike any other memories we can think of and are among the
happiest and best memories we took away from Turkey. There is a Merçan Dede CD
which we woke up to on the floor of their apartment a few times. It instantly
takes us back to that moment, every time we play it. Happy days because of our
own developing relationship, and because of the quality and warmth of their company.
The lack of bullshit, Lorraine’s unpredictable sense of humour, and the piles
of fresh börek that Roger brought back for breakfast every Sunday morning.
Roger was always so present, so aware. He was hilarious too, although he hid
his humour behind the façade of a calm, measured, serious, semi-retired white
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<span lang="ES-AR">We have talked about you both so many
times. We can’t tell you how much we missed your company after leaving Turkey.
We tried to think of a reason or a date when we could fly to Canada to see you
– but it has, sadly, been too difficult. The chats on Skype have been great
though and we remember fondly the last chat Roger had with our 3 year old-Finn-
making comments about the train engines that Finn was showing him through the
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<span lang="ES-AR">Respect, Roger, for being the man you
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<span lang="ES-AR">Lorraine - Kia Kaha (stand strong). </span></div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-90710344501747008002012-11-18T20:36:00.000-04:002012-11-18T20:36:14.321-04:00From Chris Field<br />
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As I reflect on life without my brother Roger, I realize that I am now the person who has known Roger the longest. Roger had a wonderful memory and would often say, ``Chris, do you remember...''. He would have a clear recollection of something from our childhood which I hadn't thought about in years. I felt I wanted to write down some of my memories of Roger up to and through our teenage years.<br />
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In the beginning, he was conceived in the summer of 1944 when I was about 15 months old and we were living in Liphook near Portsmouth. I think this would have been just before Dad's ship headed for the South Pacific. In January of 1945, a very pregnant Mum set out with me across he stormy North Atlantic in a small tank landing ship. The U-Boat's were again becoming very active and Mum was sure that our ship would be torpedoed or break up in a storm. We did however make it to New York with no obvious way to get to Bermuda and I suspect not much money. Mum managed to get us to Miami and then we flew by a PanAm Clipper to Bermuda where Roger was born on March 2nd, 1945. I'm told our return trip to England a few months later was very rough and Roger was terribly seasick and developed a dislike of milk which persisted as we grew up. Roger's beginnings both in vitro and early life had some dramatic sea journeys which sandwiched a tranquil few months at San Isidro with Granny.<br />
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My earliest memories are of living in Shoreham by the Sea in 1946 and early 1947. The beach across from our house had been mined during the war and had barbed war along the top of the beach. We were told some child had managed to get onto the beach and had been blown up. Needless to say Roger and I were both terrified to go near the beach. Fortunately it did not deter from our love of beaches and the water later as we grew up.<br />
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In March 1947, a very pregnant Mum set out for Halifax with Roger and me in steerage on RMS Aquitania. Apparently Roger and both had come down with whooping cough just before embarcation but Mum managed to stifle our coughs until we set sail. The plus side was that we ended up with much better accommodation in the sickbay for the voyage. Not sure how Dad managed to get Mum to agree that he could travel over on his own.<br />
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In mid-October of this year while visiting him, Roger said he like to read me a poem he had just written which was probably only meaningful to me. When we were living at the cottage in Purcell's Cove, we would walk with Mum through the woods to our Aunt Monnie's cottage. There were some nasty dogs which always barked at us and made us rather fearful of dogs. We also passed a small dump where would pick up tin cans to play with on the beach. Roger recalls Carnation cans as being the best. We'd fill them with water and have cans of cold, warm and hot water (not quite sure how hot we could get the water in the sunlight). The poem described this experience and Roger said it was probably his earliest memory. He would have been 3 at the time.<br />
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After moving to Sydney in 1949, Mum suffered from some culture shock and Dad agreed that she could take we three boys to Bermuda in the spring of 1950 to stay with Granny at San Isidro. We met and played with our Brooke-Smith cousins, Phillipa (my age), Bruce (Roger's age) and Robin (Nick's age). The next door neighbours in San Isidro had a pet monkey which got loose one day and jumped on Roger and scratched him quite a bit. It was certainly very traumatic and he had to get some shots at the hospital across the road. I celebrated my 7th birthday in San Isidro and Michael Douglas came since his Mum was a good friend of Mum's. For some reason, I threw a temper tantrum while Roger enjoyed playing with Michael and the other children. Even at this young age I never recall Roger throwing a tantrum while I apparently did it quite regularly according to Roger.<br />
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Back in Sydney, we lived at 160 Whitney Avenue and had a nice long gravel driveway leading up to the garage. Roger, Nick and I spent many happy hours creating roads through the gravel for our collection of dinkies. The back alley which ran behind the house provided a great environment for hide and seek. I remember one back yard was quite overgrown and had many daddy longlegs. An older boy told us that these insects would sew up our mouths. We certainly believed this for quite a while and were very fearful of this overgrown lot.<br />
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In December of 1954, we boarded the RMS Saxonia and travelled to England for Christmas. There were now four boys and we were shown off to our grandparents in Birmingham. Dad's bother Michael worked at the Cadbury factory and our visit there was a child's delight along with visits to the ultimate toy store, Hamlyn's on Oxford Street. When we were staying in North London at Woodford Green, there was a snowfall and being Canadian boys Roger and I went out to make snowballs and throw them at passing motorists. We hit one car whose heavy set and well dressed driver stopped, puffed up and shouted some rather unflattering comments about young hooligans in our direction. I don't recall either of us being too intimidated.<br />
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Around this time, Dad and Mum purchased to farmhouse at Northside East Bay overlooking the sandbar. The attic was a treasure trove (in retrospect probably an antique picker's delight) which contained a marvellous canvas kayak. We spent many hours in the water tipping over the canoe and kayak and coming up underneath. A rite of passage was to swim to the sandbar. Roger always seemed to be a better swimmer than me but we did our initial sandbar swim together. I think we were true water<br />
rats. The local Indians had a ceremonial site across the Bay from us and I remember, Roger and others of us exploring this site by daylight after hearing loud dancing and singing wafting through the night<br />
air. It took all our courage to walk into the woods half expecting to find Indian bodies.<br />
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As we reached early puberty, we were introduced to the intricacies of the female anatomy by our precocious neighbour Ann at East Bay. Not having sisters and being pretty naive, Roger and I were intrigued. Roger seemed to be a better student than me and I recall Mum lecturing Roger about the influence two Harrison Avenue girls were having on him. At about the same time, Roger and I were in the changing room of the YMCA and we were all fooling around when Roger cut his groin on the locker handle. I remember hushed conversations between Mum and Dad hoping he hadn't damaged his ability to have children. As we know, he hadn't.<br />
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I cannot recall Roger and I having a serious fight as we grew up and it was not because I was easy-going. As an early teenager I continued to throw temper tantrums and I was only cured of it by having Roger and Nick laugh at me as I stormed on about some injustice I felt I had endured. Even as an early teen Roger was showing the qualities which made him such a excellent family man and educator.<br />
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I will truly miss Roger. We were able to talk easily about things past, present and future and he brought a quiet wisdom to all our conversations. I will always treasure my memories of Roger both distant and recent.<br />
RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-84190352949459482432012-11-18T20:27:00.001-04:002012-11-18T20:27:33.484-04:00From Ann Wilson
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I first met Roger when he became the head of the K-12 English department at the Koc School in Istanbul where I worked at that time as the coordinator of the K-5 group.</div>
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I have to admit that my first thought on learning there was a new head of department was - I hope he has the sense to let me get on with doing what I know works well and doesn’t interfere! So I was quite apprehensive when I had my first meeting with Roger as I had no idea what he was like. Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised because my first impression was that he most certainly had the sense and insight not to interfere with what was working well! I often joked with him about that concern I had before meeting him! </div>
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Roger was a man who actually listened and cared. I remember telling the teachers in my department that all was well. We had a very calm and strong gentleman as our new head of department. I was impressed! We all grew to love Roger. His calmness and kindness affected everyone and he was always joyful, positive and cared for everyone equally. He really was a true gentleman.</div>
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I not only respected Roger as my boss but I also came to love him as a very dear friend. I also admired the strong love and devotion he had for his family. He was a great man. We met weekly and he would come over for our meeting and we had coffee and talked of many things. The conversations I had with Roger over the years were great. They are little treasures that I will always remember. Even after Roger left, he stayed in touch and whenever he and Lorraine visited Turkey he always made the time to come over for a coffee and meeting as he had in the past! The last time I saw Roger was on such an occasion last April. I had no idea that this was to be my last meeting with Roger. I will greatly miss my conversations with him but I will continue to talk to him because I am sure he is not far away and is seeing and hearing everything. Strangely, about 2 months after Roger visited my computer at home crashed and all my files disappeared except for one; the file of Roger’s poems that he had sent me over time. I will miss Roger dearly and I feel privileged to have known him, and to be able to call him my very good friend.</div>
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<i>For Roger. By his example he inspired me to be a purposeful teacher. Through his kind words he gave me the courage to figure it out by myself. From his musings on teaching he cultivated in me the idea that students are where it’s at.</i></div>
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We make our way through the school, noticing things we maybe hadn’t noticed before, or jotting down things that make us feel something nice, or good. I see Obama on the muted TV screen. I scribble in my notebook.</div>
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Through the hallways where they first met the fate of these next five years, students are reflective of who they have become in such a short time. I see a broken arm propped on a desk and smile. This too goes in my notebook.</div>
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Out the door we go, into the finally crisp November air. Down these steps I walked in autumn twelve years ago. I reflect on the person who stood there then and the one standing here now.</div>
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Feeling now like the pied piper, curious teenagers follow me. Out at the storage area, they spy a discarded toilet and snicker, laugh and point. The universe again.</div>
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Then they notice those really big shoes, smile and take pictures, pondering why these strange things are placed here, in a big cage. It is a nice moment.</div>
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We walk back, I spy mushrooms growing out of construction debris and roses blooming in November and I remember a poem also about Istanbul roses blooming in November. And I smile. The universe is like that sometimes.</div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-8733320107977397682012-11-15T12:27:00.002-04:002012-11-15T12:27:44.565-04:00Reflection from Mel MacKeen
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Roger was my principal, friend, confidant, and support while I taught with him at Uniacke School. Though I was an oldie in the profession at the time, I learned so much about being a human being from him. His calm demeanour, understanding and genuine compassion for others was remarkable. One little anecdote, if I may – I was was absent with emotional ill health and he called me at my home one evening just to be a friend. I cannot, of course, remember the whole conversation, but I will always remember two things - what he said to me and how I felt when he said it. He told me that he just wanted to hear my voice. In just one sentence he validated and uplifted me. I cannot remember my response but I hope he knew that hearing <span class="s1">his</span> voice was the best therapy I could have gotten. And now, simply spoken from my heart...one of the finest human beings I have known.</div>
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It is with great pleasure that I announce the birth of Shane Roger Maitland Field. He arrived this morning at 6:32am weighing 7 lbs and 12.9 oz. He is a healthy and happy baby who is already feeding well. S. has done a tremendous amount of work and is a beaming proud mother already deeply in love with her baby boy. The small fish in the first picture was made by Shane's proud big sister, Miriam, for the moment when he was born.</div>
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Maitland (for the village in rural Nova Scotia where I grew up)</div>
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We are both thrilled and tired after a long night. We want to thank everyone who has supported us nutritionally, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually through these days.</div>
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It was warm for late October, the moon bright and heavy. From coast to coast, reports burst from beaches transformed into levees by fast-moving backhoes. Photos of empty subway platforms, fortressed storefronts, and slickening sidewalks filled click-hungry feeds. Leave now, they said. This could be The Big One.</div>
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But that night, in a home facing the still-placid waters, the chattering screens were dim. If there was wind, it was the gentle breeze of an autumn night. If there was dampness, it was the dew caressing the harbour. It was then, in that unseasonably peaceful place, surrounded by love, that he passed.</div>
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It was a moment only he could have chosen. Always able to find the calm in a storm, always able to craft moments of fragile, perfect beauty. I knew him briefly. Only a glimpse, really. But from that glimpse I met a rare being that held the world with soft strength, an egg in granite hands.</div>
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Born and nurtured by the north Atlantic, he loved its vastness, its primal power. He understood that loving the ocean meant accepting its occasional tumult, refusing to howl when its roiling stirred the waters beneath him. That same life-force also brought unmatched beauty, adventure, joy.</div>
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It was this acceptance that characterized his writing, smothering jagged shards with pillowy softness. His last letters reflected the person I remembered: a man of strength, dignity, and elegance. He maintained these qualities even in the face of serious illness, the greatest storm he’d ever seen. The Big One.</div>
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In a world where noise too often overwhelms signal, his voice was a spike of clean clarity. Don’t shout at the storm, and don’t to try to contain it in a cup. That salty sting is just the ocean being the ocean. Instead, set sail, accept the waves when they come, and enjoy the endless expanse of infinite horizon.</div>
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I picture him out there now, sitting in a boat, bouncing across playful waves. A pink sunset inspires his pen to move, and with sweet soft words, he stirs the scene into a warm fog. Finished, he closes his eyes, smiles, and breathes in the sea. Finally at rest, at peace.</div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-60244236374346327482012-11-13T12:59:00.002-04:002012-11-13T13:00:07.281-04:00From Greg Denton<br />
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Hi Roger,</div>
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I've been thinking for some time that I should write you a long long letter, a real hand-written one, stuffed into an envelope, stamped, the whole deal. I haven't because I think what I've wanted to write seems so epic in my imagination. Even now, trying to write a brief paragraph here I don't know where to start, and all I really want to say is thank you. It's a big thank you - for your friendship, which in itself is an epic thing, and impossible to do justice to in a few words. I was barely 21 when we met, and overwhelmed with the hospitality that you and Lolly offered me in Maitland.</div>
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I remember sitting there reading a stack of your poetry top to bottom and being in awe of your book collection and stunned that you would entrust some precious, rare, and fragile publications to my care. "Journal For The Protection Of All Beings" - exactly!. It meant a lot to me, a confused kid looking for a portal out of the limits that were set before me, looking for a way to get into a world. You gave me an alliance, and mentorship, at that moment that were invaluable. And the example of your kindness, nurture, balance, soul, humour, and intelligence have shone a light for me since, piloted my boat, and always will. The list of things I owe you gratitude for are long. And I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. They say you can't choose your family, and true as that may be, I've always felt that I was offered the possibility of doing that. Certainly, I've always felt that if I could choose a family, the one you made, were making, had, was one I wanted to be a part of. </div>
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You've been my "other" family. </div>
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You guys have always given me the palpable sense of love, welcome, and belonging that let me really believe that.</div>
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So, I guess I'll let this suffice for now, Roger. Just a small thanks to you, and to all that emanates out from you. And a wish that you know the love all comes back. And a wish that I could get to see you soon and share a laugh.</div>
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Love and thanks from a Denthead, and a great friend,</div>
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Greg.</div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-33105323236930957302012-11-13T12:26:00.000-04:002012-11-13T12:27:14.053-04:00From Lorraine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-23455336049939365312012-11-13T12:23:00.001-04:002012-11-13T12:27:14.051-04:00Memories from Morgan<br />
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I've been thinking about you a lot over the past few months... and as a result some memories have floated in that I want to share...<u></u><u></u><br />
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I remember when you lived in the birth place of Hockey...Windsor NS...it was so cold and you lived in an attic, I believe, maybe before the days before Maitland………………Maitland is a beautiful place, long grass sheltering the mudflats, the chocolate inlet of salt water and big green yard with a grand house full of character sitting square and proudly facing the street...family gatherings.....a photograph of the bearded brothers all gathered in the yard, smiling faces on a sunny day. Seemed like there was a never ending pile of wood that needed stacking or splitting. The giant printing press in the mudroom...so many pieces...it was a contraption from another time. Tea...so much tea...I really only drank tea with Nanny and your family...We were all sitting in your library room, the one to the left at the bottom of the stairs, sipping evening tea...it warmed my belly and the rest of my body...I found it sooo soothing to drink...that made you giggle. However of all my Maitland memories the one that stands out and one that I'm not sure I've ever shared with you? It happened on the ride home from a visit with you guys. I was 5ish and through the death of our dog Loakie was coming to terms with mortality...On the drive I asked my parents who would look after us in the case they both died? Pam said "who do you want to live with?" That was easy...without a doubt in my mind I wanted to live with you guys...to hear Pam confirm that she felt like she could arrange it ended my concerns...it was a Big relief.<u></u><u></u><br />
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Cross country skiing, introducing me to Bobby D, Running out of gas on our drive home from Wentworth, swimming at the Pond, walking through cow patties to get to the swimming hole, there are so many memories...the other memory that I want to share has to do with you reading a poem at Lindsay and my wedding reception. It was late summer or early Fall of 1996 and you were just moving into the house in Ferguson's cove...the subaru, brimming with housewares, was parked in front the moving truck which had it's ramp leading to the base of the side kitchen door. I had just come to know Lindsay that summer and she was special to me... she was there helping with the move. You were in good spirits, probably because you now lived with a view of the ocean. Load after load made it's way into the house...on one occasion Lindsay walked out of the truck with a box and you walked in while I collected my load...as I left the truck you said to me..."She's got a sparkle in her eye...she's a keeper"...and I smiled in agreement...Appreciative that someone I respected and loved saw what i saw.<u></u><u></u><br />
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I am thinking of you from out here in Portland...wishing I was closer but sending positive vibration from across the continent. I Love you very much.<u></u><u></u><br />
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-10783205380063567762012-11-13T12:12:00.000-04:002012-11-13T12:29:01.771-04:00Friend from Bahrain
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Roger visited me in Bahrain few years ago. I am glad to have met him. He left in me most remarkable memories. He touched me with his kindness and goodness of heart.</div>
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During his short stay with Loraine, we had wonderful moments during which I shared with them the beauty of the island.</div>
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I was hoping to see Roger again when I return to Halifax. Unfortunately this will not happen, and for that I am truly sorry.</div>
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Love,</div>
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Camille Zakharia</div>
RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-87249607461757399642012-11-13T12:10:00.002-04:002012-11-13T13:10:55.422-04:00New Canadian immigrant<br />
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I really want to pass my deep condolence. He was a real councilor and good friend for me at a time when I was in a difficult situation. I was shocked to hear this news. I left Halifax after 3 months and I believe I met him not long before I moved to Ontario. I am an Ethiopian women who Roger wrote about in his blog in February 2011. It was my early weeks in Canada to decide to live here with out any support. It was a very difficult and sad moment in my life when I met Roger. He was an incredible adviser and friend for me. I just heard about his death and wanted to pass my deep condolences even though you do not know me your father was a supporter for immigrants all over the world who have no place to go at the beginning of their life start in Canada. He helped me believe that the "DARK DAYS BEING LIGHT".</div>
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May my Lord give you strength during this difficult season.</div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-59080165732492128342012-11-13T12:05:00.000-04:002012-11-13T12:27:14.058-04:00Friends from Koc School
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Hi everyone there...I would like to share with you that day on the boat on my birthday in June the 1st and Roger's message on the next day in the year 2007!!!! when he and Lorraine were here with us, at Koc School in Istanbul/ Turkey.</div>
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It was my birthday celebration and my friend Tumay organized it for me without letting me know at all!!! Lorraine will tell this story...Roger talked about the full bright moon all the time, in a poetical way ofcourse as you see below...he was a man of poetry, a man of kindness, no doubt...a real gentlemen...he passed through our lives and left his light behind...the Koc school will never forget him...you can share the picture in his blog if you want.</div>
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Regards to all his family.</div>
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Aysen Gökyılmaz and Tümay Yasım</div>
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<i>From: FIELD Roger</i></div>
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<i>Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:51 AM</i></div>
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<i>Subject: Thank you so much!</i></div>
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<i>Dear Tumay,</i></div>
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<i>Thank you so much for having such a wonderful idea!</i></div>
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<i>Thank you so much for inviting us to share last night with Aysen and friends!</i></div>
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<i>Thank you so much for choosing such a good boat with such good food and drink!</i></div>
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<i>Thank you for arranging such a beautiful evening, making sure the sun set beautifully and the wind dropped at exactly the right time!</i></div>
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<i>Thank you for arranging to have the moon come up for Aysen from behind the hill to light up the night (and thank you for making it a full moon, like your own name)!</i></div>
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<i>Thank you for organizing the beautiful light display on the first bridge on our way back!</i></div>
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<i>Thank you for the great cakes and looking after the lovely gift, the little book, the card, etc. etc.!</i></div>
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<i>And thank you for your wonderful happy presence!</i></div>
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<i>Koray says you are a great organizer - he's right - so thank you again for everything!</i></div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-58456747952684805762012-11-13T12:00:00.002-04:002012-11-13T13:18:49.680-04:00From the Halifax Refugee Clinic<br />
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Roger Field, our long time volunteer, friend, supporter and Board member passed away in his sleep Saturday night, after battling cancer.</div>
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Roger, you are a precious soul and you will be much missed. Thank you.</div>
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Thank you for your commitment to human rights and cultural </div>
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exchange.</div>
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Thank you for opening your heart and your home to so many of us.</div>
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Thank you for your steadfast presence, never needing recognition, always ready to help out in any way.</div>
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Thank you for being so humble yet so worldly.</div>
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Thank you for your generous, luminous, gentle presence.</div>
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Thank you for always having that twinkle in your baby blues!</div>
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You were one of a kind. You touched so many people’s lives and made this world a better place.</div>
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We miss you, dear Roger.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roger serving pancakes at the Refugee Clinic.</td></tr>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-34740079608326500942012-11-01T14:50:00.004-03:002012-11-13T12:27:14.055-04:00<br />
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Hi,</div>
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This is Ellen, Roger's daughter.</div>
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My dad passed away at home on Sunday, October 28th with family at his side. It was a warm beautiful moonlit night before Hurricane Sandy brought winds and rain the following morning. Thank you for all your well wishes. It is clear how many people my dad's loving and calm demeanour touched over the years. His <a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/classifieds/announcements/obituaries/field-roger-michael-age-67-of-fergusons-cove-passed-away"><span class="s1">obituary</span></a> was published in the Chronicle Herald yesterday. <span class="s2"> </span></div>
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There will be a celebration of Roger's life in late November. If you would like to attend, please contact me (<a href="mailto:ellenfield@gmail.com">ellenfield@gmail.com</a>). We are asking people who would like to share memories or stories of Roger to send them in an email to Jon Eben Field (<a href="mailto:jefield@gmail.com">jefield@gmail.com</a>) and he will post them to this blog. Please include your full name.</div>
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If you are inclined, you can read the poem that he read to all of us on Friday with <a href="http://www.ianbent.com/"><span class="s1">Ian Bent</span></a>'s accompaniment on piano. It was his last exertion of energy and will be on <a href="http://www.allisonangelo.ca/"><span class="s1">Allison Angelo</span></a>'s upcoming album. In many ways, the end of his life was as poetic as the words he carefully composed in his poetry. </div>
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OLD MOON (VALENTINE'S DAY)</div>
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Come up come up come up</div>
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lift your round yellow head</div>
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oh moon</div>
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above the furrow of cloud</div>
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emerge in your roundness</div>
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and shine</div>
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Come up come up</div>
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pull yourself clear</div>
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as the earth tilts away</div>
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and shine across the town</div>
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your face fully round</div>
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and yellow and free</div>
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The sky above is cold</div>
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and clear</div>
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Are you looking for me</div>
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your old yellow face</div>
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now floating</div>
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as I have been looking for you --</div>
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I am here but I am gone</div>
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I am on my way</div>
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with the wind behind</div>
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flying down the straight</div>
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road to find her</div>
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my darling</div>
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who waits & watches</div>
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Shine high shine whiter</div>
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old moon</div>
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shine on me as I fly</div>
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keep that road bright</div>
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as I swerve round the big rigs</div>
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keeping my eyes straight</div>
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mind clear as the sky</div>
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Old moon you have watched us</div>
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lovers these dozen years</div>
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Keep watch tonight</div>
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keep me safe on my way</div>
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and by your light</div>
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old moon</div>
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help me fly</div>
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help me home</div>
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to my love</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waxing moon in Ferguson's Cove days before Rog's passing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rog's view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset in Ferguson's Cove - days before Rog passed.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-CA">A couple of mornings ago, <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=btqftnkab&v=001HyWuGvOOR8gTDu-gECA6LIFqacB45FTmcNFPOdBWcs5DevNAYf0u9XlAVIygjfdA93xCwWtHTqdQZ9TOY39S3ZJ2V3QvcQmgSg6cT3XspoDmc5jMWUjNwQ%3D%3D">this was the treat</a> that was in my Gmail inbox, while the
image above was the treat outside my window that morning, looking not at the
harbour but at the white birches between our house and our neighbour’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those are certainly two things to celebrate. </span> This blog is titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Field
Days: A Miscellany</i> with the subtitle <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Day Book of Sorts</i>, and this post is an observation and celebration of that day
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Just over forty years ago Lorraine was in the Grace
Maternity Hospital with our first child, who was born after a long and
difficult labour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was profound and
life-changing for both of us, but more especially for Lorraine, who had been
confined to her hospital room for quite a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She went to the window to look at the world
outside and was amazed to see that things were carrying on quite normally out
there, people walking along the sidewalks, waiting at crosswalks, talking to
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aujourdhui je suis</div>
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tous hommes</div>
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this baby born the first</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">On his 40<sup>th</sup> birthday we
celebrated, and perhaps the most wonderful aspect of this celebration was the
great joy and pleasure our two granddaughters took in the celebration,
especially when they got to shoot their aerosol cans of “party string” at their
beloved dad and when they got to watch him blow out his candles and enjoy their
slices of the chocolate cakes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Later on that same weekend I participated
in a reading that was part of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Word on the
Street</i>, a celebration of books and of both writing and reading, held on the
Halifax waterfront.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was very happy to
be there, along with the other winners in the Writers’ Federation of Nova
Scotia 35<sup>th</sup> Annual Atlantic Writing Competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">My entry, “Orientations, Syria”, included
five poems that explored my experience of, and orientation to, being In Syria
with Lorraine to help her with the completion of her photographic work
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was great to have my work
recognized in this competition and to have the opportunity to share it with
others, though this celebration, like any celebration involving Syria must be
tempered by our knowledge of what is still happening there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is my introduction to my
reading:</span></div>
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submission, “Orientations, Syria”, is part of a larger series, Orientations, I
have been working on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The verb “orient”
means to locate and understand one’s self in relation to the east.</span></i></div>
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dedicate this reading to my intrepid wife Lorraine Field, who has been
travelling to Syria since 2004 to make and exhibit photographic work (her last
visit there was in February, 2011, just as the Dera’a demonstrations were
beginning to spread); also to our stalwart friend and guide G</span><span lang="EN-CA">.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> and his
extended family; and most especially to the Syrian people, whose spirit,
courage, and heroism have inspired them to continue resisting and fighting back
against the Assad’s cruel regime through a time of heartbreak, injury, and
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poems are from a quieter time in that brave and broken country.</span></i><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">The reading went well, and I was very happy to be able to
do it and get such a positive response from those who attended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As to celebration, I am always happy to join
in celebrations of the written word, and I was also happy to watch <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/10/2012107134952895805.html">this shortvideo clip</a> on Al Jazeera today that may hold hope for a future Syria without
the Al Assad family crushing its own people so ruthlessly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, from our positions of relative privilege,
comfort, and safety, let us hope for the dawning of better days for Syria’s
freedom fighters – it is the least we can do.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">What have
heart and hearth got to do with each other except that they share the same
first five letters?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have often thought
that there should be a connection, though etymologically there is none that is
apparent to me, each one coming quite directly from a different early Germanic
root word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me the connection is
approximately this: each one is central to some sense of house or home, and
here I mean literally as well as metaphorically central.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The heart
is housed in the body centrally and pumps its blood to our extremities,
including that bonebox of a skull protecting our brains, without which my forefinger
would not be able to hunt and peck its way through the writing of this post,
and without which there would of course be no post to posit, no etymological
proposition to explore. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">A few years
ago I watched an ultrasound image of my own heart beating and was struck by the
profundity of it all, since I was observing the central pump of my own life
system, realizing that it had been faithfully doing its work since months
before I was born and would keep going until the end of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was, both literally and metaphorically,
getting to the heart of the matter.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">In our
house we don’t have a hearth, which is actually the floor of a fireplace, but
our woodstove provides a good approximation of one, as it is central to our
sense of home and an important source of warmth, again both literally and
metaphorically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both the hearth and the
heart are central to my idea of recuperation, which is the restoration of
health and balance to my body system.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">When I was
recovering/recuperating in Foothills Medical Centre in the early stages of this
illness journey, we had some notes on the whiteboard in my hospital room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was the following poem by Li Po that our
son JE put there:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Long is
the journey,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Long is
the journey,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">So many
turnings</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">And now
where am I?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">And where
was I?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was in a hospital bed where
people who cared were looking after me, working in every way they could to
facilitate my body’s recuperation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was not, however, where I wanted to be, though I understood the necessities
that kept me there; I wanted to be home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After all, home is where the heart/hearth is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the other messages on the whiteboard,
besides the list of questions to ask the doctors on their early morning rounds,
were reminders of home: my own bed, a place where I could see Halifax Harbour,
a place to sleep with the window open.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Now I am
here, in our house, in a comfortable bed, and the rainbow of recovery is still
working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alleluia, I say, let the
recuperation continue!</span></div>
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I woke up this morning at 5:06.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had slept since something after three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me this was a good stretch of sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t turn on CNN, or CBCNW, or CTVNC and
actually wondered about putting my head back down to sleep some more; after
all, I had already watched the stiff little marionette figure of Paul Ryan
address the predominantly blond female and mostly pudgy and nondescript male inhabitants of/participants in the 3-day RNC infomercial
and listened to the commentaries of the insipid Piers Morgan with his
assortment of beer drinkers at the CNN Grill as they analysed Ryan’s lies (like
accusing Obama of closing the Janesville GM plant when it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was actually the Bush-monkey who did), his half-truths,
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things on my mind and that I could do some more sleeping later before E. came
over for EFT so I sat up, slid my feet into my sandals,
noted the brightening bluish light to the east, collected the debris from my 3 a.m.
snack, and headed downstairs to prepare a new picnic for this new morning, the
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Before I ate anything I thought of the deck of cards in a
drawer and played a game of Patience on the dining room table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The game was taught to me by my grandmother
and I played it in her memory (she died in 1970 the same week Lorraine and I
were married, during the October Crisis), and in memory of her daughter, my
mother, who died on August 27 of last year (see RECUPERATION #3).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you understand the game at all, you will
recognize that I had one move left to make (in column 2), but after that the
game was finished, four diamonds up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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It is now 6:43.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
sun has risen and illuminated our bedroom, shining on my Egyptian fabric piece
and Lorraine’s Tunisian desert photo, and on the chakra garden that has been
with me more than two months now.</div>
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Actually it is now 2:22 p.m. ADT, an auspicious sounding
time, and I have just woken up, after a morning when <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have eaten some, slept some, drunk some, and
been treated to a celebration breakfast (see Recuperation #6, not yet written,
on the amazing and immediate effects of vemurafenib, a new drug for treatment of metastatic melanoma like mine, produced by Roche and provided/sold as Zelboraf).</div>
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I have just looked at my sitemeter, which reads 482 visits
this month (you are reading a non-viral blog here!), noted that our son JE was one of
two visitors to the site today, read Fareed and Saleha’s kind e-mail from
Kabul, signed on to an Avaaz petition, and photographed a message of love from
my 5-year old granddaughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">RECUPERATION #5 –
Remembering who you are:</b></div>
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I believe it is important to remember who you are and to
understand the continuity of self from as far back as you can trace it to the
present moment in order to be more present in the world, whether it is the
recuperative journey I am travelling in/on at the present or any other activity/focus/perceptual
awareness I am engaged in (if I am starting to sound prescriptive or
tendentious or proselytizing here, please forgive – or, at the least, humour –
me for the moment).</div>
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In my EFT session with E. this morning, she finished the
session with” “Backward visualize to a time when you were at optimum health,
and bring that forward to now.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did what she suggested, going back to a summer 30 years ago when she was just three, and felt a stream of energy move through my body from my feet to
my head, and it was a good thing.</div>
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I have not been reading a lot on this journey (other than Al
Jazeera online and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Yorker</i>),
but I have been exploring over the last few days some areas of my bookshelf
for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some treasures from my past and
present that help remind me who I am and have been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Although the list is long, I’ll try to keep
the entries precise, and please remember that these entries are descriptive of
my recuperation/recovery process and not prescriptive – you don’t actually have
to look at any of them.</div>
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<a href="http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_lines_of_my_hand.html?id=QuNTAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y">THE LINES OF MY HAND by Robert Frank (1989) </a>– look in the
section “IN NOVA SCOTIA Canada” for “words”, “for my daughter Andrea who died…”,
“POUR LA FILLE” on the following page, “sick of goodby’s”, “4AM MAKE LOVE TO
ME<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4AM MAKE LOVE TO ME”, and “HOSPITAL”
that includes this message: “THE WIND WILL BLOW THE FIRE OF PAIN ACROSS
EVERYONE IN TIME”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go there if you like.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Patient">THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje (1992)</a>. </div>
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<a href="http://books.google.ca/books/about/Autobiography_of_Red.html?id=RvhrbPaEZ0wC&redir_esc=y">AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED by Anne Carson (1998)</a>, another great novel, this one in verse.</div>
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<a href="http://books.google.ca/books/about/Under_the_Ice.html?id=G3WzSgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y">UNDER THE ICE by Alden Nowlan (1961)</a>, inscribed in blue marker,
“For my son, Johnnie, with love Alden Nowlan”, and I wonder where is Johnnie
now and think of Frank’s works about Andrea (mentioned above) and any works he
made about his son Pablo (both of Frank's children were young when they died). I also remember finding the section in the Dalhousie University stacks in 1964 where Nowlan’s books were lined up and I remember living inside them
for days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book is from my late
father’s collection and I do wonder if he bought it with me in mind.</div>
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<a href="http://adevotedreader.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/dance-of-the-happy-shades-by-alice-munro-1968/">DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES by Alice Munro (1968)</a>, a wonderful bunch of
very short novels.</div>
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<a href="http://books.google.ca/books/about/Plainwater.html?id=JGBaAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y">PLAINWATER by Anne Carson (2000)</a>, a gift of poetry and prose
given to me by my old friend Udo (a small prescriptive note: read “Water
Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother – pp. 245-260 – before reading NOX).</div>
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/07/12/100712crbo_books_orourke">NOX by Anne Carson (2010)</a>, a book of loss housed in a box.</div>
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<a href="http://www.abebooks.com/Colour-Times-Collected-Poems-Souster-Raymond/8323082180/bd">THE COLOUR OF THE TIMES: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RAYMOND SOUSTER by Raymond Souster (1964)</a> found down the stacks shelf from Nowlan, another place to live for a few days.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_American_Poetry_1945%E2%80%931960">THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY, edited by Donald M. Allen (1960)</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Tallman">THE POETICS OF THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY, edited by Donald Allen& Warren Tallman (1973)</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A companion
piece to the one above. It was edited by Warren, who was on my thesis committee and
who organized a memorial service at UBC for Charles Olson at which I wrote a
short poem involving the moon that night, the constellation Orion, and The Aspy
Fault which is a connecting earth line between northern Cape Breton and
Gloucester and read as part of the service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I never met Olson.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bookbill.net/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=6234">THE BROKEN ARK: a book of beasts, poems chosen by MichaelOndaatje/drawings by Tony Urquhart (1971)</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1973-robert-creeley-idea-photos-143223007">HIS IDEA by Robert Creeley, photographs by Elsa Dorfman </a>(publication date is shown as 2
March 1973, my 28<sup>th</sup> birthday), includes the following:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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"Note read re<br />
letter of Lawrence’s<br />
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to Mrs.
Aldous/Huxley? That<br />
films are obscene<br />
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if when the young<br />
man and woman come
home,<br />
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they masturbate one by one.<br />
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Not so --<br />
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I did meet Creeley.</div>
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<a href="http://www.biblio.com/books/469303423.html">LETTERS FROM THE SAVAGE MIND by Patrick Lane</a>, “a
loon/without wings/wanting to fly/recording letters/from the savage mind”, “This
book is for Red Lane/The/Carnival/Man” (1966).</div>
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<a href="http://engl119winter11.blogspot.ca/2011/01/jack-kerouac-mexico-city-blues-242.html">MEXICO CITY BLUES (242 CHORUSES) by Jack Kerouac (1959)</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.jonebenfield.com/">FIRST VOICE by J. E. Field (1991)</a>, with the following
dedication:<br />
"TO ROGER<br />
MY DEAR FATHER<br />
WHO SHOWED ME THE WAY"<br />
It also included a longer
personal inscription in blue ballpoint.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop">THE COMPLETE POEMS: 1927 – 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop (1995)</a>
with “At the Fish Houses” (pp. 64-66), “Cape Breton” (pp.67-68), “First Death
in Nova Scotia” (pp. 125-126), and “The Moose (for Grace Bulmer Bowers)” (pp.
169-173), as well, of course, as “One Art” (p. 178). </div>
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RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-485563473676895782012-08-17T04:41:00.000-03:002012-08-17T07:20:10.999-03:00RECUPERATION #4 -- Guardians<br />
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When I became ill in Calgary the night after we arrived in
June to begin our working vacation with family there, it was Lorraine, my
dearest love and closest guardian, who drove me to Emergency, got me into a
wheelchair, negotiated the necessary reception information, and had the
presence of mind to say to the examining physician that my haemoglobin had
dropped over the past couple of years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
never would have thought of that – all I knew was the acute pain in my abdomen –
and we would likely have waited quite a bit longer before they got me on a
gurney for the CT scan that determined where that pain was coming from so that
the experts could fix it.</div>
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From that early morning situation in Foothills Medical
Centre Emergency until this evening, nine and a half weeks later, when the same
guardian whispered in my ear that I should wake up because my brother was
coming over to play crib, she has been there always, from the very
beginning,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my number one, my love, my
nurse, my angel.</div>
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And she hasn’t been the only one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our kids, our adult children, who came to
Calgary because I was ill and formed a protective web around me, were also my
fierce close guardians and remain so even if they cannot always be sitting at
my bedside or rowing the boat with me or holding my hand on the couch as we
reminisce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their sweet songs and jokes
and reminders about pills and smoothies and EFT sessions and the love in their
eyes has consistently sustained me (and helped me to laugh at myself in this
illness dilemma!).</div>
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I have tried to describe to others the close and close-knit
layer my family created so immediately and so easily out there in Calgary and
how they held me, this small presence in the hospital bed who was often not
very sure where this all was going, together when I needed to be held together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t spent a long time thinking about
what might have happened in the absence of their presence, but I do know that I
would have felt lost and wandered much longer.</div>
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I could write much more here, talking about the rest of the
guardians – one of them could well have been you – who have asked how I'm doing,
brought comfort and stories, stuck needles in me, said whatever words they find to say in moments of great
doubt and worry, made me laugh, sent me messages, made food for me, helped take
care of my family guardians (especially Lorraine, the number one
caregiver/guardian in this picture), launched my boat, planted a garden for us,
and just showed how greatly you care.</div>
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You are my guardians and I do owe you!</div>
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Big time!</div>
RFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124966482906653794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828573410355327391.post-56991291526299018572012-08-05T20:02:00.000-03:002012-08-05T20:03:24.644-03:00RECUPERATION #3 – Belief in Magic<br />
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Here I am on a Sunday in Nova Scotia beginning to write a
blog post on magic and the belief in it as part of a recovery/recuperation
process for serious diseases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Yesterday was a good summer Saturday for Halifax, sunny
skies, occasional cloud, high of almost 30, and only a light breeze off the
cool ocean, a good day for a swim, so we headed for Chocolate Lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three of our children were there, along
with our three granddaughters (aged 4 to 7) and two daughters-in-law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this was magical enough for me as I came
down the steep roadway on Lorraine’s arm to the beach area and set up my
folding chair in a bit of shade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt
like an old crock (I was an old crock!) among all of the beach-loungers and the
splashers and swimmers, but I was at the beach in my suit, possibly going to
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I made it, this skinny old guy being helped into the water
by his son and daughter and even got in before she did <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and got to splash her as she continued to
hesitate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I didn’t expect, however,
was how hard it was to swim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one
thing, my flotation was gone, and for another my skinny arms couldn’t move me
fast, but swim I did for a couple of metres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Next time we go, Lorraine said, we’ll bring a pfd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great, I thought, that’s how I learned to
swim about 60 years ago (only they were called lifejackets then). </div>
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So where’s that belief in magic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I’ve written so far, I think, concerns
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Actually I didn’t particularly believe in magic myself until
yesterday afternoon after the swim when we went to my mother’s grave at St.
Phillip’s in Purcell’s Cove (she died at 90 last August 27). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the girls’ first visit to the grave and
they brought special rocks, including one from California, and sea glass they
had collected in Purcell’s Cove to place on the stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they gathered flowers to arrange as
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When it was all arranged and photographed, I asked if anyone
there had ever found a four-leaf clover, and E., the 5-year old said, You mean
like this? and picked one from the grass right next to the grave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several of the adults said they’d never seen
one before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that was magic!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a wholly magic time.</div>
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And then tonight, just as we drove down into Purcell’s Cove,
an osprey hit the water right next to the car and lifted off with a fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that’s not magic, I don’t know what is.</div>
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So #3 on the list of recuperative strategies (they are in
random order) is a belief in magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
a believer!</div>
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