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Cy Valley


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Propelled by an ever-lengthening stride and extraordinary willpower, the lanky British medical student Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes. He pitched over the finish line at the University of Oxfords Iffley Road track on a dank, blustery day May 6, 1954 and electrified England during its post-World War II doldrums.

Dr. Bannister, who died March 3 at age 88, became a national hero at a time when mavericks around the world were overcoming the long-perceived physical boundaries of man and nature.

The American pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, and the New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary and his sherpa Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest in 1953. Then came Dr. Bannister, with his astonishing 3-minute, 59.4-second run.

His milestone resonated with millions of people for its seeming simplicity: four laps, four minutes, the universal endeavor of running made into a sublime feat.


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My Mom (Mother Krink) passed away Sunday March 4th in a Bellingham hospital.
She fell and really broke her leg late Tuesday night and had to be rushed by ambulance
to the hospital and surgery was Wednesday and it was a complicated fixing job to her
artificial hip. Best case scenario no weight on leg for 3-months and in a nursing home.
She was 88yrs old and a Scorpio and went shopping for groceries every week needing
a cane or walker and still driving a car. She was fine last everybody talked to her early
in the week. But that's how it works sometimes when one moment you are OK and a
minute later you are not OK. The surgery took a lot out of her and with the Sun conjunct Neptune
was the "call it quits" aspect. My mom will instantly like not having to operate in a 88yr old
human body so badly worn out. Our souls likely to meet up again.


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Sorry to hear that Krink..   Something like that and independence don't really

go together..  Thought's are with you and your's for this...  At least the journey was

swift and not lingering..  Best wish's...

 



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Snippy sends his condolences. I knew it was unusual not to hear from you last night.

It's tough losing your Mom. Your next few days are going to be complicated. I'll be thinking of you and hoping that you are able to find solace.

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Yep, what Snippy said. My mom passed in July 1980, but she made a huge impression on me. And left a big hole in my soul. I think about her every day. And every day I wanna call her to hear her voice. Although my phone won't reach her.

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I would never wish a nursing home on anybody, much less anybodies Mom.

Those tear jerker commercials showing cats and dogs being mistreated is what i think of when someone says nursing home.

It takes real courage to get old and have some kind of life. You can bet shes dancing around like a young person now....



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My mother left us last summer, she didn't know us and hadn't for a good while. She was in a memory care facility, there really wasn't any other way for us to do it. Her not knowing us and watching her decline made it much easier on us because we all felt like we'd lost her well before that. Still, I get what you're saying, Clavalin.

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Sorry to hear of your loss Krink. No matter how long ones life is,the passing is never easy.
St. Joes in Bellingham is certainly a state of the art Hospital nowadays. And have provided great health care to me and my family since before Chink was born.
Wish you many good memories..



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My Deepest Condolences to you Mr. Krink.

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So sorry Krink... my mother is 91 and getting frailer everyday ... 



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Thanks all for the thoughts BJ Members. I should be back to "ridiculously funny" very soon.

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Seems to fit here, frontspiece in a book I recently read:

G. M. Trevelyan > Quotes > Quotable Quote
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

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Cy Valley wrote:

Seems to fit here, frontspiece in a book I recently read:

G. M. Trevelyan > Quotes > Quotable Quote
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

 I like that one. Sad, but true. Numbers gettin' stroked off the seniority list like crazy, now. 

Some retirements. Some the other way.

https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/8240122/gary-burden-classic-album-cover-artist-dies-at-84-neil-young-pays-tribute

Gary Burden

 

 

 



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http://www.hawking.org.uk/

 


Stephen William Hawking. 1942 - 2018.

Cosmologist, space traveller and hero.



-- Edited by Calvin on Wednesday 14th of March 2018 06:37:16 AM

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Hawking was so much more than being one of this generation's greatest theoretical minds,etc.

He was atheist. And had no fear of death. http://time.com/5199149/stephen-hawking-death-god-atheist/

In fact he laughed at the prospect of death. After all, he lived at least fifty years longer than doctors say he should!



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