I missed you all!!! _ seeing Angels...

smile · Post by **smile** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:46 am

Thanks goodness I can read all your thoughts on here again etc. I have just spent the last month in hospital with a perforated abcessed bowel and sceptacemia and my faith helped. I was longing to hear the Dear Heather album and my other LC`s was so glad to get out... Bless you all.

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:37 pm

So sorry to hear you've been so ill, Smile. Welcome back. I hope you enjoy your Cohen convalesence period.

Margaret

smile · Post by **smile** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:20 pm

Thankyou Margaret for your kind thoughts and wishes.. Carol

tom.d.stiller · Post by **tom.d.stiller** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:30 pm

Welcome back, and I'm so glad you recovered "with a smile", Carol.

You chose the right time to return, because we all need someone to bring a little happiness in, now more than ever.

Cheers, and - well, smiles

tom

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:26 pm

Sorry you have been so ill Carol. Hope you are feeling a bit better. Nice to have you back.

Cia · Post by **Cia** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:32 pm

Welcome back to the war - nice to see you(r) Smile.

hugs and best wishes from Cia

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:40 pm

Hello Smile, how nice to see that you are recovering and so happy to be there again

Take care!

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:57 pm

Welcome back Smile
Sounds like you had quite an ordeal....

I recommend 5 doses of LC a day ...or should that be TLC?

Pete

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:58 pm

Dear Carol ~

It sounds like it was a rather scarey ~ and without Leonard's music, dismal ~ time in the hospital. I'm very glad to hear that you've recovered; if not fully, at least enough to return home. That's a very long time to be in the hospital.

Welcome back ~ and glad to see you joining us again with such gusto

! Happy Valentine's Day, Smile

!

Love,
Elizabeth

Joe Way · Post by **Joe Way** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:58 am

Dear Carol,

Let me add my warm greetings also. We haven't corresponded, but I've always enjoyed your friendly nature.

I'm happy that you are returning to our fold.

Joe

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:51 pm

And I'm glad, Joe, that you are now considering the Forum as "our fold."

Once you truly enter here, it's hard not to consider it in those terms.

Joe Way · Post by **Joe Way** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:55 am

Hi Lizzy,

Glad to correspond. You are right that one somehow feels an allegiance to old friends like I do to the good folks at alt.music.leonard-cohen.

Unfortunately that site has become slower and slower. I do miss my friend, Geoffrey (snow/poetman) who hasn't posted in several weeks. Those denizens who hold out there do have some substance as LC used to read it often and mentioned it in an interview a few years ago. It is also the place that Sandy (from 1000 Kisses deep fame) talked to many of our friends before her untimely death.

I just read your great account of the big cats in your life! I have to quote one verse for you:

"From the day's of '49"

There was Ragshag Bill from Buffalo, I never will forget
He would roar all day and he'd roar all night and I guess he's roaring yet
One day he fell in a prospect hole, in a roaring bad design
And in that hole he roared out his soul, in the days of '49
In the days of old, in the days of gold
How oft'times I repine for the days of old
When we dug up the gold, in the days of '49.

Much love,

Joe

Young dr. Freud · Post by **Young dr. Freud** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:56 pm

Those denizens who hold out there do have some substance as LC used to read it often

Please! Put this one in mothballs.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:06 am

This thread brims with good will and honest sentiment. I read it with much pleasure. Yet, I find myself putting my gloved hand to my lips as I cast my gaze downward. Never shall anyone know if I intend to blow a kiss in the direction of the good will, or cover a sly smile in response to the post above mine.

I don't know you smile/Carol, but I hope we run into one another on the board. You sound like a Lady many have great fondness for. I'm very glad you passed your trial by ordeal.

Linda.

Anne.A.L · Post by **Anne.A.L** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:07 am

Hi Linda, my second favorite writer from Western Canada! (my husband, also from Western Canada, being - not by much - the first).
Anne