A Continuation of Reflections

Hello darling I miss you - this morning I was listening to Radio 3 " breakfast" and they were coming from Cornwall- and playing pieces written about the sea- quite lovely - but they startled me by playing Sea Fever sung by John Ireland---I have been left feeling very sad and missing you- how I wish you would appear at the door right now and say "want a wee cup of tea hen?" In fact Ellie read the poem far better- I did not know it was a song too although many poems are- and of course Leonard Cohen 's is a poet and his songs are poems too-or many are. I am feeding Brian and Celia's chickens this week- when I go over I remember us sitting in that lovely garden last year about this time- Brian had made a cake for Celia's birthday and we sat in the sunshine -it was really too hot that day- unlike this year- the weather is not so good for summer- I am glad your last summer was a beautiful summer- and we had the garden and the sweet peas- sunflowers- muc...

Dear John such a long time since I wrote to you here on the Blog. Of course I have been talking to you in my head- sometimes out loud to your picture-and especially in Banavie Fort William Scotland. I thought about you almost minute by minute there...dad too. I think of you both when I think of the mountains hills and lochs of our homeland...Scotland. I was there with Sandra and Jackie we had a fun time and quiet reflective times too. We enjoyed the Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig - we went through the most beautiful scenery on that journey I felt moved a lot. The journey from Queen Street to Fort William is quite stunning too.We are from such a beautful country sometimes we take it for granted- Jackie reminds me most of Pa- she spends as much time there as possible and she plans to buy a beautiful place to live in there sometime in the future-I hope her dream comes true. We plan a trip to Scotland in August in two weeks today we will be there..Andrew Luc...