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I'm always astounded reading these posts of yours, because we'd need to be psychic or have a really good deck of tarot cards to perceive any loss of your cognitive abilities. And I hope you'll hang on as long as you can because there'll be a big hole in our hearts if you leave us.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Thank you.

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Well, Bill, I have not met you, but your post brings me to tears. And as my Dad used to say to me when I was a whining child “ Martha Ann, your tombstone will say “ THAT’S NOT FAIR!” Well, Bill, this truly is not fair. Your mind is far too valuable, far too logical and clearly so very brilliant. I wish you ein Gute Besserung and if that’s not possible, then as little pain and aggravation as possible. I’m not good with words at times like this, I’m thankful I’ve been able to benefit from your wisdom and Zen. Thank you.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Thank you. Can you tell me which parts were wise and/or brilliant? I still need to convince my wife and her two cats.

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Well, by my standards, anyone who can maintain a semblance of a sense of humor while battling debilitating disease has to be brilliant. And wise because you know which battles to fight.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Thank you.

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Charles Clemens's avatar

God bless you Bill. It encourages me to see that you were able to recollect that joke about Bilingual people and American. Your loss of the ability to speak so many languages somehow reminds me of how the Soros/Obama gang destroyed so many of our national monuments and are currently writing most of our heroes out of "history". I pray for you every day.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Please play nice.

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Charles Clemens's avatar

I have never before been tempted to BLOCK anyone on Substack.com.

Thank you for a reason.

Fuck you Twice.

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Bill Heath's avatar

I removed Moe's direct reply. I am tempted to remove your comment above.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Kiss once and kiss me twice and kiss once again.

Daisy and I will get an electric recliner built for two

She has stopped writing I have stopped reading and learned to read.

For me it began on Mountain in Montreal where Once Benjamin once said Adieu mes Ami bon Voyage and for Daisy it began in Vanderbilt it began with an obstetrician named Jefferson Davis the third or fourth and the Pharoah gave them 24 hours to get the fuck out of Tennessee. I don't drink I smoke around campfires and my Daisy is always high and neither smokes nor drinks.

Why don't we drunk sand screw.

Somebody is singing it the end of the world I think Brenda Lee but I always kept forgetting my own name.

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Charles Clemens's avatar

Retard. You belong in the White House.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Please play nice.

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Charles Clemens's avatar

I'm sorry, Bill; but when attacked by a mentally defective mad dog, it is a natural response to react. I BLOCKED Moe and expect no future contact with the babbling fool.

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Bill Heath's avatar

I understand what you did and why.

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Rosemary B's avatar

Thank you sincerely for sharing your struggles, and frustrating failings.

Do puzzles and games interest you?

Aging isn't for sissies. You are pretty strong to write this out and explain your failings at this point.

It is okay. I suppose you have come terms with each changing day. God blessyou and keep you well for a long time yet!. You have good friends

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Bill Heath's avatar

Thank you, My wife has it much more difficult than I do. I'm not at the point of not recognizing people, but about two months ago I did, following a seizure, ask my wife where our youngest daughter was. She had to explain to me that our youngest daughter, who had been chronically ill her entire lifetime and lived with us, had passed away a year and a half ago.

I'm not good at coming to terms with things.

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Gregory's avatar

Danke schön, Bill. For sharing your life with us and just for living it.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Ich bedanke mich auch.

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SKnow's avatar

Sorry to hear this Bill. Hopefully you’re at the start of another (long) rebound.

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Bill Heath's avatar

I don't know. Here in Nashville we're in Tornado Alley. Our home has been in a bubble of protection. About six weeks ago my daughter came over to Dad-sit while my wife was on a trip to a prison as part of a church program. When the tornado sirens came on I had trouble getting out of my chair. I finally told her I'd lived long enough, get in the interior bathroom and save herself.

Damn insolent daughter wouldn't quit and we wound up in the bathroom for an hour face-to-face for an hour. The next day she discovered she had Covid.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Hey bill where in Nashville we live across the street and I have an international iphone and I couldn't dial a number without forgetting the last number I dialed and I have my first Apple. Do i need IOS. My 64 bit can't handle Windows eleven. My two computers haven't even got drives. I can't get through microsoft. My Iphone says France and Cupertino and the closest bridge is bedecked in the colours of Ukraine. I am sorry there are hundreds of bridges closer some of them are wood and covered. Right now sammy and frank are singing when I was 17.

My wife is demented when she speaks everybody shuts up and when I speak everyone tells me to shut up.

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Bill Heath's avatar

If you have an Apple device (such as an IPhone) you have IOS. It's the Operating System.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

I am trying to edit it makes no sense I wrote like this 70 years and it is still nonsense. I have two computers the size of a pack of cigarette. Explorer won't let me through security with out a pass word Amazon ca and amazon com operate on two different platforms ios is a third platform like linux. I live on the border Google thinks I live in the us and my local stores won't let me buy on line I love Vermont cheddar I have two banks nin town and they use different currencies and one eye my wife promised to stop driving and two banks in town. three border crossing and I drove two or three million through space and time. My internet carriers says I am by the New Hampshire border but I see vermont

My land line kicks out when i go from the backyard to the front and verizon doesn't cover one side my house without international charges

We lived like paupers it is time to live like kings.

I've seen dementia in 17 year olds and a 90 year chief carry a canoe on back every morning live a shack with his wife a potbellied stove, an electric lightbulb and he could afford a mansion in Beverly and I actually was a photographer at a hillbilly wedding and they were friends and afford my services but I got many hugs.

Not many photographers shoot Billionaire and Hillbillies just because.

That's life that what what all the people say. Call me on my iphone its been over twenty years since we were sleeping in a recording studio just outside of Nashville. I was still a deaf mute and stoned out of my gourd and friend put on Gordon Light foot.

I don't do time sometimes seconds feel like day and hours seem like seconds.

They don't what to call it but it has a diagnosis. Race, gender and religion have no diagnosis.

Life is wonderful I still fantasize beside a garden wall in stardust memories and my daisy has her teeth and smile and is still the beautiful girl in the world but 161 years of dementia does that to a person. As Charlie Pride once sang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmyrS9RgEM

My Southside neighbour is close to 100 my neighbour are just starting.

It takes a Village. Hillary vacations less than an hour .I can show pictures of fifty three below and Daisy and I in the land of the Pale blue Snow. Montana Slim Calgary Rodeo album we married and honeymooned inBannff and met at the stampede and when I look to edit most of it ain't there . My wife's grandfather wired the columbia exhibition and started the IBEW.

Ode to a louse is brilliant standup.

We first made love to songs of Robbie and my wife doesn't understand the Prisoner. It was the greatest Tv show ever and nobody understands English.

We watch no comedy or dramaWe watched Mahagony Opera, Mahagony trailer and we Mahagony in Chicago and saw charley pride sing kiss an aNGEL GOOD MORNING STOP BY FOR COFFEE MY i THINK WOULD ENJOY MEETING YOUR WIFE .

mY WIFE IS A GENIUS SHE has always been demented she talks to everyone the same as long as I 've known her she is six going on seven but someone came halfway round the world to hear her defense. She is perfect in every way.

I am an idiot my wife has always spoken few words bus when she speaks the silence is deafening. I have a friend in NY who visits it cost more to deliver than the books cost and most are pre 1950/.

I live in Quebec and the Truth is Amazon cannot with the post for reliabilty or urban carriers for speed cost and service.

You can't say that on FOX or MSNBC because its the truth the whole truth and nothing

Nashville is southwest of Chicago and I we can chat over coffee. Our nanny is fabulous we get her six hour a week she went to train in Philadelphia Mississippi don't believe that shit on television they will adopt you on site. There is no such thing as gender there are more variations than starsin the sky. There no such thing as religion because god is in the heart not the head. Do I believe in God the truth is I don';t have to do you?

Do you have a smart phone i'm up to audio video but my wife and I still hold it up to our ear can we we hook it up to bose can you teach claire to kindle.

Can I video the birds play music and transcribe usin Dragon works straightv o the box. Nothing speaks Canadian in California like James T Kirk and Pa Cartwright and Ali Velshi, Peter Jennings and Keith Morrison. Only problem is I know all the Firing line words but like buckley but his seem to make sense despite a complete lack of logic his father was a Nazi and I refuse to cast judgement many of our best friend died of alcohol poisoning.

I asked our doctor to make a house call. The Doctor is a ten. But my wife is my everything.

Can we sit on recliners and video fatty katty and batty and listen to music squirrels are amazing but people like our Cardinals bluejays a nut hatches and in spring Hummingbirds and Gold Finches.

What can I say our car is ten years old has all the bell and whistles we have chauffeurs we pay for the gas a smooch and listen to Stardust in the back. Life is good in fact it was never this good. My agenda includes a trip to the urologist for a cystoscopy. I had a very aggressive malignant tumour removed a decade ago.

I bought a legal DVD of Yentyl for Christmas and she won't sit here and watch itshe has no internet or mobile phone can you watch it with me legally in Nashville?

You bet I am demented IOS is a platform but is an independent contractor

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Bill Heath's avatar

That made no sense whatsoever

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thanks Bill It made no sense to me but remember I said I was just learning to read and write. You can speak I am going blind and I use glasses to type and glassses for the monitor and must learn an international iphone and have California as one location and Europe as another and I can't remember where I am and it take years to memorize and I still hunt and peck. I can't read my own writing and my friend is coming to hook up my computer and I did that for 50 years.

Chucky and I need to to go behind closed doors.

My wife is completely demented when she speaks everybody listens. She has been demented her whole life. It is not every doctoral thesis and outside examiner flies half way around the world to my wife's defense.

We move from the land of the midnight sun to Chicago. The Chicago School is aptly defined in John Ralston Saul's The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

My father in Law worked for the TVA. He was a brilliant scientist. So is my wife on the day he died at 93we held hands and he asked the water level of Lake Michigan so we could graph its change in his head. Uncle Bob was Watson's Secretary . I am clueless I told Professor they were idiots I could prove it. I can't sign my name.

I was talking with friend in Chicago living on a street with his name. His favourite composer is Bach but now he has a 24 hour nanny and a 24/07/365 schedule and is blind I have one eye and it has a cataract My father knew I was autistic it runs in both Families my mothers family some of us are very slow with above genius Iqs and some....

I can't read what I write it take me three weeks to edit I am just learning.

Do I write better yea. Can I edit give a couple more weeks. You write for yourself and i.

i NEVER MET cHARLES ONLYONE PERSON ON eARTH UNDERSTAND WHY A PAID SUBSCRIBER RECEIVES A LIFETIME EXILE. cHARLES IS RATHER BRILLIANT. i AM A SPACE CADET.

mAYBE ONLY cHARLES UNDERSTANDS pHANTOM 309. mY NANNY DROVE WITH tEDDY BEAR BEFORE BEFORE HIS LAST ROUND.UP. sHE KNEW HIM WELL

i STARTED TO WRITE AT 50.

wHEN I look up to the monitor and recover and glasses. Charles can explain. I was a deaf mute for twenty years and wrote great IQ tests and failed kindergarten.

I have been studying mysticism for almost 76 years and I am still an idiot.

Sir John is a year older and fell in love with his wife about 60 years ago. I wasn't alone

He served consecutive terms as head of PEN International. He hates Putin and he is a brilliant speaker. Maybe Ali Velshi can explain.

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Bill my wife was born at Vanderbilt The attending physician was named Jefferson Davis III or IV . He was named for an unsuccessful insurrectionist.

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=insurrection

I love America but I watched them debate the Meaning of officer for week

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=officer

I want to stoop so bad and I lost all respect

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Office

I am a retard and I know Raskin Obama and Cruz are full of shit just like that Bastard Scalia and I love Opera, Oprah and the Grand Old Opry. I love Elvis but Percy Sledge sings Love me Tender and in the Ghetto belongs to Elvis and Leonard Cohen. I grew up in Leonard's ghetto where Kamala Harris grew up and attended the same High School as Leonard Cohen. Leonard has been singing Tennessee Waltz all my life.

Is there a walker built for two and the Tennessee Waltz which predates Marconi?

I watched Thew Nashville Ballet perform my favourite Tchaicovsky ballet not named Swan Lake. My wife and I are totally dement and we need navigators and Skypilots.

Ground control to Major Tom.

I keep losing the cursor but I fell in love with Kamala Harris 60 years ago in Montreal brilliant, beautiful and understanding but I was deaf and truly dumb. I got lucky. I understand the green grass of home I like John Denver I but listen to Tom Jones and go back and forth. No one did Whiter Pale Better than Hildegarde von Blingon except Gould . Bach is my man my wife Mozart so we play Vivaldi and Satie and Yo yo Ma and Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra and the Mississippi Sheiks. Right now now Nat King Cole is unforgettable. We met at a Stampede and slept to the songs of Robbie Burns sung by Jean Redpath and Paul Robeson and the electric Prunes. We are totally demented and Sinatra is singing Paul Anka. Sinatra could deliver the goods but for me Anka is Anka singing Puppy love.,

Sinatra James Keelaghan Our Sinatra is buried in our back yard.under many crosses and he was a Buddhist Priest.

What does one say when someone asks if you believe in God? I can't say yes. Believe and know aren't synonyms. I don't speak human. I speak only heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWiiYAwLz40

I saw James in a Chicago suburbs the hall was filled.

My wife is totally demented she is 85 and still studying philosophy and I am singing Daisy who is two years old and my is singing and for me the words are jumbled and last week was first time I heard my sing and her memory is in terabytes. We demented we are still teenagers in love.

How lucky is that?

We know dreading the ring on the phone. You write well for a demented old fool. Keep on truckin. We slept with Mathilda at the Buchanan log house. How demented is that. Mathilda is warm and friendly She helped make through the night.

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Coco McShevitz's avatar

Thank you for sharing this, your experience can only be helpful to others and shows a generous heart. For what it’s worth, your writing remains terrific.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Just terrific? Not unbelievably terrific?

Thank you.

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Coco McShevitz's avatar

And you retain your sense of humor as well! :-)

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you Chuck. It was orgasmic. Bill writes from his heart he is a great teacher but this is his place and this is his lawn We should come to listen and pay attention. My song Catalogue goes way back to Homo Erectus. Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman is still a living philosopher

Michelle Obama grew up in South Shore.

I grew up by Jewish General Hospital

I love Percy Sledge but when I took my Daisy to mama they said welcome home.

When my Daisy took me to meet her daddy he said I been waiting for you to come back.

He wheeled his wheel barrel through trees broad and carrying a cell my wife wouldn't let me lift. He had a Radar Range before there were microwaves. I helped her write her dissertation on a daisy wheel and the LaserJet One needed a fork lift. I was demented 75 years ago. Que sera sera.

My wife is a Star trek Admiral. Daniel Dennett wrote the book. It goes back to

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster and the University of Chicago.

From bacteria to Bach and back

My demented wife can't fry egg or or operate a 2024 Alexa toaster or siri.

Her hard drive still has room for stardust memories We were married on Groundhog day and the electric recliner built for two is ordered.

Thank you, Thank, you, Thank you. Can someone teach old farts sitting around the eating Frijoles, Navy beans, Fava beans lentils and chickpeas what are Kindles and iphones?

I am learning to write and my iphone replaces about how many departments. I am learn to place a call. I know what terra byte is the Wang had 32 or 64 k and was 18 or 24 inch floppy. Nobody here knows what an inch either French or English.,

I am the world's Worst Poker Player and am a life master in the ABA and ACBL without any basic skills is too from zero to one. I knew base zero, one, three, five , seven, 11. I knew next was 13 when I was. SEVEN

I will be 76 in March can't sign my name or tie my shoes but Astrophysics is Duck Soup 1939 or 2024 take one from column A one from B and go Quack Quack.

Viaduct?`

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I am me not you and this is your gravy. You write magnificently and my wife I met at Stampede Party in Calgary Alberta. My wife was writing her doctorate and I was in asheltered workshop but I always had love and star dust memories. I celebrate every morning my wife is still with me.

We are well taken care of I told the children to fuck off my wife and don't need crocodile tears we have music to listen to andI may not write but we ain't going softly into that good night.

I failed Kindergarten Seventy years ago and my wife entered the House of the Rising sun in Chicago in Hyde Park.

I still listen to Chaucer Blues; house of the rising sun sung by Hildegarde von Blingen and listen to Elvis and Percy sing love me tender. We sit around the campfire and listen to Willie and johnny and fart and inhale well I inhale and my wife loves me tender and we are grateful we can still inhale. It took a fucking six weeks to sing happy birthday to a sister in Tallahassee because the shitbrains want labels so they can dismiss the reality of The Circle of Life.

Thanks for a good cry. We love you. Wow we celebrated a first social security cheque in Chicago and looking for a walker built for two so my wife and I can listen to Percy Sledge sing when a man lovea woman,

The never heard me they were too busy trying to fuck with everybody's brain

I had to Yell

Fuck off we seen seen you shit and we are tired of changing diapers.

The Crystal Chandeliers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmyrS9RgEM

Keep on trucking . I stopped driving we have great drivers. We can sit in the backseat and sing why must we be two teenagers in love.

I was very lucky. Live long and proper.

House of the rising sun 😂😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c

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My wife loves Mozart so do I . I will surrender my driver's in March my wife is the world's worst driver. When its spring time in the rockies my wife and I will remember Kensington and Mohammed Ali's security and we walked by singing When a man loves a woman and there is a rose in Spanish Harlem and sing bye bye Miss American pie and sing freddie fender and 'ride charlie pride to our last roundup. Georgia is on Montana Slim's Calgary rodeo album. He taught mother Maybelle and New York Henry (Hank Blue yodel Number one. We Honeymooned in Banff and were wed where the Iceworm nests again.

Right now Ray and Willie are singing Seven Spanish Angels.

We left Chicago when the Lyric finished The Ring cycle 20 years ago.

My wife bought me a tuxedo but forced me to leave my keilbassa at home so intermission was a trip to the loo and a cup of coffee. My father loved opera and my father in law was a Parrot Head and loved Stardust.

My father in law was named Eugene a after Great American philosoher. His godfather was Victor Debs.

He went to prison for singing love songs. Ray is singing dreams of yesterday and I can sing a duet. and Louis owns Wonderful world with Brother Iz. We sang summertime with Gershwin and Hershey Felder and the Honourable Kim Campbell in Chicago.

Consider yourself hugged. I heard PaulAnka sing Puppy love and Frank Sinatra understood the song My way. Paul Anka is singing put your head on my shoulder

Right now we are listening to Earth Angel. I/We remember DR Demento and we are still suffering from dementia. bring it on home bring your sweet loving bring it on home to me. I still can't sign my name.

L'Chaim

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

My mother-in-law's friend had the same thing. I'm sorry, though, as in most situations this serious, that seems to hardly cover it. Thank you so much for continuing to write and share.

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Bill Heath's avatar

thank you.

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