Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Entirely non-Oracle related.
Laura's grandmother, and hence Rachel and Sam's great-grandmother
died today at 98.
I'm not sure that it is appropriate entirely to be sad - though of
course the family are - not just because of the great age at which
she died, but because of the wonderful life that she lived. She had
3 children, Brian who is Laura's Dad, Gerard his brother and Claire
the only girl. All are special people whom I am privileged to know -
Brian for obvious reasons, Claire because she has spent the best
part of 40 years dealing with challenging kids with learning and
behavioural problems - a year of her life was spent teaching one to
one a little girl who would not speak; but because I can find it on
the net and it sums up the sort of person Gran inspired others to be
I'll leave you with the Heythrop biography of Gerry. He is
undoubtedly his mother's son
There is a wording in St Paul's Cathedral in London regarding the
lack of a memorial to its remarkable architect - If you seek his
memorial look around you. It is even rarer to be able to say of a
person - if you seek her memorial, regard her family
sort of sadly
Niall
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Gerry grew up in Glasgow in the early 1940s. Ever an intelligent and
alert child, he used to memorise the silhouettes of German aircraft
just in case he would be called on to shoot one down. He was at this
time eight years of age and fortunately he was not called on to do
his duty in this way for King and country. There were occasional
lapses of judgement however - he came home one day with a small
piece of metal with German words on it: clearly a fragment of a
German aircraft that did not make it back to Berlin. His mother
admired this, as mothers do, of course, and asked him where he got
it. "I swopped it for my bike" proclaimed the future head of
philosophy. At which point his mother took charge of the situation,
with the piece of German metal in her hand she visited the house of
the boy now in possession of Gerry's bike, had a conciliatory
conversation with his mother, and returned home with the Hughes bike.
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The Jesuits
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Laura's grandmother, and hence Rachel and Sam's great-grandmother
died today at 98.
I'm not sure that it is appropriate entirely to be sad - though of
course the family are - not just because of the great age at which
she died, but because of the wonderful life that she lived. She had
3 children, Brian who is Laura's Dad, Gerard his brother and Claire
the only girl. All are special people whom I am privileged to know -
Brian for obvious reasons, Claire because she has spent the best
part of 40 years dealing with challenging kids with learning and
behavioural problems - a year of her life was spent teaching one to
one a little girl who would not speak; but because I can find it on
the net and it sums up the sort of person Gran inspired others to be
I'll leave you with the Heythrop biography of Gerry. He is
undoubtedly his mother's son
There is a wording in St Paul's Cathedral in London regarding the
lack of a memorial to its remarkable architect - If you seek his
memorial look around you. It is even rarer to be able to say of a
person - if you seek her memorial, regard her family
sort of sadly
Niall
===============
Gerry grew up in Glasgow in the early 1940s. Ever an intelligent and
alert child, he used to memorise the silhouettes of German aircraft
just in case he would be called on to shoot one down. He was at this
time eight years of age and fortunately he was not called on to do
his duty in this way for King and country. There were occasional
lapses of judgement however - he came home one day with a small
piece of metal with German words on it: clearly a fragment of a
German aircraft that did not make it back to Berlin. His mother
admired this, as mothers do, of course, and asked him where he got
it. "I swopped it for my bike" proclaimed the future head of
philosophy. At which point his mother took charge of the situation,
with the piece of German metal in her hand she visited the house of
the boy now in possession of Gerry's bike, had a conciliatory
conversation with his mother, and returned home with the Hughes bike.
=================
The Jesuits
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