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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.

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

Margaret

Thankyou Margaret for your kind thoughts and wishes.. Carol

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

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

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

hugs and best wishes from Cia

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

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

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

Pete

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

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

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.

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

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

Please! Put this one in mothballs.

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.

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