On deathbed, a ring renews lifelong love
23.02.12
When she died last week, a 96-year-old woman in a bed in a nursing home, she wore a wedding ring.
To her, it was a symbol of a love story that had been going on for more than 70 years.
To everyone else who knew about the ring, it was a sign that love rarely travels in a straight line and that life can be even more beautiful and complicated than we think it is.
In 1940, the woman’s husband placed a simple gold band on the third finger of her left hand and swore that he would love her forever. He kept his promise, and she never took the ring off.
Her husband died in 1992, and her heart was broken. She entered a nursing home in 2004. Slowly, her memory began slipping away, but the ring remained on her finger.
A few months ago, her daughter went to visit her and saw that the ring was gone. Her mother’s fingers had withered, and the ring apparently fell off and was swept up when the room was cleaned.
By now, the woman was drifting in and out of reality, but she knew that the ring—the connection to the most important person in her life—was gone. She brought it up again and again. There were days she didn’t know she had once been married, but somehow she knew that the ring meant everything to her and was missing. She was heartbroken. Again.
Source: Buffalo News
Great Canadian adventurer Don Starkell takes his final paddle
23.02.12
“Yet Don, very strong in body and immensely strong in determination, not only planned it, he pulled it off, despite all the obstacles that high seas, drug-runners, alligators, piranhas and ill health could throw at him.”
Immortal though he seemed, not even the legendary Canadian adventurer was a match for cancer. Mr. Starkell died on the weekend. He was 79, and had been ill for two years. His family is not conducting interviews at this time leaving friends, and former editors, to talk about a man who, in many ways, was born not before his time but after it.
“People always said Don was born about 300-years too late,” says Mr. Forde, who is working on an educational documentary about Mr. Starkell’s life. “He kind of likened himself to the great explorers of our time. He was a great history buff.”
He was also an orphan, an insecure kid, who discovered his freedom and found his confidence — in a canoe —in the midst of a Manitoba catastrophe.
Source: National Post
WWE: Breaking Down Monday Night Raw: Best in a While!
23.02.12
The way that I usually judge a movie to see if it was good or not is the "24 hour test." Am I still thinking about what I watched 24 hours later? Well, I tuned into RAW last night excited, after what the Royal Rumble brought to the table.
The promise of John Laurinaitis getting fired was definitely enough to receive my undivided attention for the evening. And last night's Raw still promotes questions even a day later.
Of course, within minutes of the show's start we were subject to Mr. Clown Shoes stammering over the microphone, and another promo that CM Punk was the star of.
Not Punk's best promo, as he stumbled over a few words, but what Punk does, to set himself apart from everyone on the mic,is the the fact, his lines don't seem unbearably rehearsed unlike guys such as Laurinaitis and Kane .
The promo left me excited for the match between Punk and Daniel Bryan and the ensuing decision of John Laurnaitis' future by Triple H.
Another thing to get excited about was the Elimination Chamber match that we will see in just a few weeks. The R-Truth vs. Miz feud will definitely continue to heat up, Chris Jericho and CM Punk are going to start a rivalry (more on that later).
Source: Bleacher Report