John, my sympathies.
I lost my mother in March and my father's sister, his last remaining sibling in June. He lives 1300 miles from me, with only one of his five children near.
I just got home after spending four days with him. Out to our hunting property at Delta Marsh to see the results of a $2.5 million DU/Delta Waterfowl/Government project to fix the marsh for ducks that mostly involved building weirs and dikes across our property. Then a few hours east with him to Lake of the Woods to take him to the island cottage he and my mother loved so much. He goes a lot slower now but boy does he sparkle when I get him out to those places. I don't know how much longer I'll have him but it won't be the same when he's gone.
I decided to post because just before I left to return home last night, he gave me a 20 (or more) volume set of the complete writings of RK, given to his mother by my great grandfather in the years 1910 -1912, according to the inscriptions. A real treasure!
