More positive thoughts winging their way to Maine. Hang in there.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/8/2012 6:59 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Nice place. An old pub, eh? Every hear the clinking of glasses late in
> the night when everyone should be a'bed?<g>
>
> I once committed Invictus to memory, long ago in school days. Seems a
> little over the top now, but then if I were facing the reaper perhaps
> not so much.
>
> At any rate, it's not a bad verse to ponder as one enters one's third
> week sitting in the Intensive Care Unit at Maine Medical Center. Ben's
> developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, likely as a result of
> so much time in surgery, and his lungs are having a devil of a time
> absorbing oxygen. It's a reversible condition, especially in one so
> young, but it takes time and time and more time. So we're in for a
> long haul, but there's a bit of light down there toward the end of the
> tunnel. Not much, but a bit, and right now, a bit is enough.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Bob
>>
>> That's my house, an old pub ("The Three Horseshoes"). The lit bay
>> window is my dining-room. You can just see the remains of a sign
>> painted on the wall above and to the left, "Royston Fine Ales and
>> Bottled Stout".
>>
>> A couple of later shots are from my sitting-room, one towards the
>> bay window
>>
>> The ISO was 12,800 for both night shots.
>>
>> That is Invictus; I understand that he was poorly in hospital with
>> TB, or later perhaps when he was having an operation on his
>> remaining foot.
>>
>> "Out of the night that covers me,
>> Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
>> I thank whatever gods may be
>> For my unconquerable soul.
>>
>> In the fell clutch of circumstance
>> I have not winced nor cried aloud.
>> Under the bludgeonings of chance
>> My head is bloody, but unbowed.
>>
>> Beyond this place of wrath and tears
>> Looms but the Horror of the shade,
>> And yet the menace of the years
>> Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
>>
>> It matters not how strait the gate,
>> How charged with punishments the scroll.
>> I am the master of my fate:
>> I am the captain of my soul. "
>>
>>
>> William Ernest Henley
>>
>> Chris
>> On 6 Feb 2012, at 11:57, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>
>>> Nice. I rather like the second orange one. I also recall "Invictus"
>>> if
>>> it's the one that has to do with being captain of one's fate and
>>> master of one's soul.
>>>
>>> --Bob
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>>
>>>> We had a fairly heavy fall of snow last night and it has prompted me
>>>> to get out and take some photos:
>>>>
>>>> http://images.threeshoes.biz/Landscapes/Winter/14684316_Bpdbrt
>>>>
>>>> Four (starting with the orangey ones) are of my street and my house;
>>>> the orange cast is from the street lights as it was nearly 1100 when
>>>> I decided to go out and see the scene.
>>>>
>>>> The following few shots are from a nearby hamlet called Cockayne
>>>> Hatley, St John's Church and graveyard where we went for a walk in
>>>> the snow. The church is quite a handsome one, especially outlined
>>>> with snow, but the graveyard contains the gravestone of William
>>>> Ernest Henley. I didn't really know of him until I first found the
>>>> grave some years ago, but he has written some well-known poems,
>>>> including "Invictus".
>>>
>>> --
>>
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