Re: Ping: Petem

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mleuck wrote:
> On Jan 7, 9:20 am, Frank Olson
> <use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> mleuck wrote:
>>> On Jan 5, 9:58 am, G. Morgan <usenet_ab...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:30:12 -0500, "Robert L Bass"
>>>> <nore...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> I'm not looking for
>>>>> pity.  I just want to make peace with those around me.  If it makes you feel
>>>>> better to keep on hating me for some imagined slight, so be it.  That's on your
>>>>> head -- not mine.
>>>> Yup.
>>>> All you can do is clean your "side of the street", and that is done.
>>>> If he wants to wallow in his own misery, that's his problem.
>>> If he wasn't in the position he's in now he wouldn't be cleaning his
>>> side of the street
>> That may be.  If Mike S. had seen what was coming do you think he would
>> have tried "cleaning his side of the street" too?
>
> Psycho Mike had been very ill for several years and knew what was
> going down, he even told me so on the Ouija board the other night
>
>> I think He has given
>> Robert a tremendous gift.  Not all of us have much of a chance to make
>> amends before He calls us to Him.
>
> I imagine Robert doesn't think that's much of a gift Frank
>


He was given the "gift" of time.  And every day he's here is another
"gift".  When my Dad contracted cancer, he was gone very quickly.
Diagnosed in December and laid to rest in May.  A little over five
months that we all intensly cherished and still remember.