So that this journey has 50 endings rather than just one, I plan to go to every other pier – as well as some non-existent ones – and document the whole thing over on 360-degree Pierland.
Maybe I’ll see you over there.
(If you stumble across this blog and wonder what it was all about – the Frankenstein Ramble post pretty much sums it up; the final posts are below this one; and the ‘Accounts of the Walk’ link on the sidebar will take you to all of the accounts of the actual journey.)
Farewell.
(Title quoted from Van Morrison’s Friday’s Child. Even though I was born on a Thursday, it seems fitting… ‘Can’t stop now.’)
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I found your book as I was searching for ‘poetry’, ‘hearts’, ‘open heart surgery’ ‘recovery’ ‘father-in-law’. It took a little while, but after clicking through a pile of valentines poems and .pdfs for nurses on cardiac wards I found your Bypass Pilgrim. I just received it this morning and it’s very beautiful, thank you.
My father-in-law Jim O’Grady is due to have open heart surgery tommorow (Thursday 23rd Feb 2012). He’s northern Irish, 79, has snow white hair, and is having his valve replaced for the second time (first time about 8 years ago). He writes and reads a lot of poetry. I want to send him something that will inspire him to keep going and something that will comfort him. He said the last time he had it, it was almost a choice whether to wake up in pain or to take the path to the ‘silken road’ (or something to that effect). I’m hoping your poetry will help him delay that for a while longer yet
Thank you.
Hello Kate, thanks for the lovely comment – I hope all goes well for Jim tomorrow. How marvellous that you found my book and that it is nestled amongst ‘valentines poems and .pdfs for nurses on cardiac wards’ – that has made my day! All the very best.