One thing that struck me most forcibly immediately after Laing died is how forgetful I have become. It has to be that we lived a life of mutual self reliance, one of us remembering for the other.
I have made a few trips since Laing died and I thought "I know I will arrive at my destination without some essential item, such as toiletries." Now toiletries are private and personal. We all have our list of essential items…
This hot weather is taking its toll.
I am at the best of times lethargic, at worst down right lazy as a domestic animal. After he took early retirement from July 2002 he did all the cooking (he had done most of it as his afterwork therapy, along with a glass of wine or gin …) and shopping until cancer and his chemo and then failing health prevented him from doing so.
Now I ask myself as I shop even just for one…
