THE OTHERSIDE OF THE VOLCANO - Chapter 37 - A REVIVAL - MINE!

 

A POWERFUL TIME!

I KEEP THINKING ABOUT YOU.  YES, YOU ARE MY PALS,
MY FRIENDS. I PROBABLY WILL NEVER MEET YOU IN PERSON.
THAT IS NOT SUCH A GOOD THING SINCE I'D LIKE TO KNOW
MOST OF YOU

MAYBE.

IS PARANOIA SETTING IN?   

I HAD A BIG BIRTHDAY LAST YEAR.
80 YEARS OLD AND OLD AGE IS EXACTLY
WHAT EVERYONE WHO HAD BECOME OLDER
HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT, SQUINT, AY, GROAN....NOTICE I AM USING ALL CAPS?
IT'S A OLDER PERSONS KIND OF THING I FIGURED OUT ON MY OWN.

I CAN SEE YOU BETTER MY DEAR READER!

IT'S JUST TO BE CERTAIN NOTHING IS MISSED/ JUST IN
CASE I GET A LITTLE BLURY EYE BALLED (AS I DO EVERY
MORNING IN BOTH EYES,  TELL NOBODY) AND MISS  PLUNK ON
KEYS WHICH RESULTS IN TYPING A WHOLE NEW
LANGUAGE THAT NONE OF US CAN TRANSLATE (UNLESS YOU ARE ALAN TURING)
UNLESS YOU PUT YOUR FINGERS AND THOUGHTS
ON MY ( IT'S BI LINGUAL) KEYBOARD AND BLINDLY  MIS TYPE
UNAWARE OF THE CHANGE....IT'S JUST A LITTLE 80 YEAR OFD
KINDA THING. 

I WOULD TELL YOU ABOUT
THE THREE TIMES I HAVE FALLEN DOWN BUT
EVEN I DON'T WANT TO RELIVE THE TERROR
OF THOSE NON-EMERGENCIES.  THE TERROR IS IN
THE DOING OF COURSE AND NOT SO
MUCH DRAMA IN THE OLD/GEEZER XRAY GUY
WHO WANTED TO TAKE EXTENSIVE   
 XRAYS THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING
TO DO WITH MY PAINFUL  ONE FOOT THAT
I TWISTED....NO DOUBT HE REALIZED
HE COULD, AND WOULD, COME UP 
WITH SOME SORT OF REALLY NASTY
CONDITION,
YET UNREVEALED TO ME
AND  MY PUBLIC, ONWARD...HE GRUMBL BUT AFTER
LENGTHY PRE X PHOTO NAME CALLING, HE FINALLY
AGREED TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE FOOT
THAT I WAS CERTAIN MUST BE BROKEN IN
MANY OF THE NON WALKABLE PLACES INDICATED BY ECONOMIC WISDOM AND ME...BOY,
DID THAT HURT!

NOTHING WAS BROKEN,
I LURCHED A BIT AND FLED.

STAY TUNED AS I WILL NO DOUBT
BE SHARING WITH YOU MORE 
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES...
THAT IS, UNTIL THERE ARE NO
REPORTS AT ALL.

THE WHIMPERING WILL THEN END.

LORD HAVE MERCY

Leonardo lives
(to be continued I hope)