Graham Everest

Mathematician, former priest, quite sick with cancer, three wonderful kids.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

So what about Home as a metaphor for heaven? Obvious big problems. Whose? Yours obviously. Then there's the fridge door. But give it time.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Any more treatment likely to kill me. Similar danger with no treatment but I see the point. Pain breakouts hard to deal with. Sue amazing.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Love Robert Frost's "Hired Man". Why there and not his brother's? Hints of the Prodigal? Home has to be your choice yes and it can't refuse.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

More truly, pain isolates. Rev Sandy's having a grim time lately and this has promoted fellowship with her, but not with the world.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

The world consists of pain and suffering. So when you experience pain you should feel great solidarity with it? It hasn't happened yet.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Wonderful conversation with hospital chaplain about home as a metaphor for heaven. She was reading Robert Frost's "Death of a Hired Man".

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Nice family of blackbirds in the garden. Juvenile sits clumsily on the grass with sign round neck to all local cats: Eat Me! Get up sucker.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Today I feel like I'm fading away.

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OK, I go on about this, but beauty can emerge ex nihilo. Last night, very late, the colours and the fibres on my mohair blanket.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Reading Bauby's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". Surely, the chapter where he shaves his dad is unsurpassed in Father-Son literature.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

My new grabber was delivered today. It is sleek. I can now put on my pants in under 5 minutes. Don't mess with me pal.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

The thunder storm started just as Sue and Jamey drove off. Bekki and I stood watching it from the open front door.

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People say it's crap to have your life shortened by illness. But I've lived to see my sons become men. How awesome is that?

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Loved Amsterdam: the Vermeers, the food, van Gogh's Crows, the pants shop - I mean it sold pants and it was good, did I mention the food?

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Lots of martins darting by the river. Generous flashes of yellow from the wild irises and the buttercups.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Two sparrows just coupled in my apple tree.

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Apparently, when young male primates are denied play fighting, they grow up to be more agressive.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

Life is bliss just now. Pain relief coming good, giving sleep and better mobility. Thank you everyone who has helped.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

I'm reading Cormac McCarthy's "The Crossing". The wolf has just been shot. I can't go on, that wasn't supposed to happen. Sob sob.

[Graham Everest @ellipticprime]

It isn't easy caring for a sick man. What Sue did for me today was amazing. Don't ask.