Had A Great Conversation With Nanda And I Wrote What She Said Here Because I Loved What I was Hearing ... Enjoy! The Day After Thanksgiving Here In Northern Virginia ....

i am talking to mom now and giving her your phone number now so she can call you today. it's a nice conversation with her and she sounds great and i am glad that she called me as she has been on my mind and i have been concerned for her. i will find out more now about her trip to the hospital this week.. i spoke one sentence to him, he did not want to speak and neither did i. oh well, that will probably not get any better. mom is talking about a a tree made out of feathers, that was the advertising for it, she ordered it and it was not what was advertised through , it was not like the one that she had and that she gave to Connie. Connie and bill and Cathy came by.  mom just said ; " Tony, i'm blind, i cannot see anymore. " she says it's been a difficult time for us, we've both been sick, we are both very aware that we have problems getting things done , Mom is saying all of this, they did not get out, she's taking some powerful medicine as she fell down again, did not break anything, " It's a career to being well."  Eric has not been doing well, she goes in for her test on Wednesday." , "   The good news is that they have not found anything wrong with me! I do not have lung problems. never mind, i am rattling on, i try not to listen, eric hears it all. the upside of all of this medication is that something is work, not fixing my bones but my mind is much clearer, got rid of this fog from old age. Bill and Connie drove up. Eric and Connie had a great conversation that they both enjoyed. " Mom is talking about Bill's Alsheimers that he has. " But Bill looks wonderful! "  Mom as you say Larry sounds fine. She's laughing and enjoying her conversation with me and Eric is quiet and that's okay. I am enjoying writing this to you as she speaks to me. She is talking about Cathy now, Now we are talking about Connie owning three grand pianos! All the four or five grand pianos and there are not enough to go around! I am sorry we lost our grand piano but at least we do not have to go through this! It sank when it got loaded onto the boat in Costa Rica. They were waiting for it to dry out, the dining room table made it that we have here, but the Steinway did not make it. ... Connie has three grand pianos! Oh well, but Leslie is the maddest of them all ... " Both of them look much younger than they are! They don't look any older than they did 20 years ago. He's just not as up-tight as he was. I was blown away by the way they looked! " Sez Mom, Bill is two or three years older than me, Mom says ... they were for their period, their era, typical of what a good couple looked like. I think Connie has a distinct edge. " Oh Tony, you've got a plate full!  " "Mom says. " We're all working as hard as we can to keep it together. " I say. " here was hope when I got married at 23, the whole country has fallen apart. I don't want to vote for either of the candidates. They don't give our President to do what he can! They don't give him a chance. ... it brings back old days, memories of Brasil and the old days. Harry and Bill were closer than Connie and I were, Bill offered something really nice to Harry... he had been in the Army ... he softened the impression of the Foreign Service Harry did for Bill and other military people. When you think about it, it is amazing that Connie and I get along so well as we have absolutely nothing in common. What Bill and Harry had something special. But I had to work on Connie, we had some hard times. " says Mom as she continues to talk about Bill and Connie and Cathy ...  Mom is talking about the Poire Wiliiam liqueur that I gave her last Thanksgiving. " I don't go any places. My bank balance is going up because it's no fun for me, it's exhausting, I can't see anymore, Eric does most of the shopping. He has trusted to me to buy somethings and I have made some remarkable mistakes! " Mom just said chuckling out loud! She is saying that the signs on things should be larger so that those with macular degeneration ... because of old age, it's not because of anything else, they should do something about this. " I'm worried that I might get it and that worries me. " I tell Mom, as I could not live without my sight I am thinking ... that would be just disastrous I think to myself as I listen to Mom as she talks on giving me little chance to say anything, and that is okay with me as I just like listening to her voice, her animation, I'm glad I can talk to you, you sound good. " So do you! " I say back, you sound nice , Give my love to everybody. We had a really nice conversation. Just tell he I loved our conversation. " I love you Tony! " " I love you Mom. I'm so happy to talk to you. " Give the cats my love! " Mom just added. " Beau Beau 2 is whatever Eric calls her, It's too much to try to remember. Beau Beau 2 has her moments, she does not like for me to pick her up, if I surprise her, she has mean claws. Eric has a different experience. I wish I had a border terrior! Benny was little border terrier. Benny was given to Mort to give to me on one of his trips to Europe. ... They did fox hunting, bring the fox up by the neck from their burrough. Benny did fine at Lake Tahoe. People loved him ... one day he just disappeared. Mother put up a sign about it, the next day a man calls and a man called and said they think they found Benny on a boulevard on the way to hearing Frank Sinatra .... a big deal at this night club in Hollywood, he had a topless foreign car, and he stopped and he left Benny with the hatcheck girl, everybody was talking with Benny, and he brought him over to me and mother at the show and that's how we got him back, he was something in Hollywood, I did not know, gorgeous, holding little Benny ... he was perfectly charming, Benny was the hit of the evening, he stole the show, I am sure that Frank Sinatra sang well, Benny was being so charming at the hat checkout counter .... only in Hollywood, ... Benny disappeared again, a week or so later, benny went away to die Mom's mother said, if Benny came home , wanted to come home, he knew how to come home and he would , Ciro's night club, was there for a longtime. Number one, with a stage, you could dance, they only had the best performers ... I went on my 21st birthday with a man, when it was all over he asked me to marry him, i was dumbfounded, I did not see it coming, ... said Mom,  anyway, that's the story of Benny ... the book is 3 pages and growing ,   it's almost finished, Eric has turned it into a story, he has made a time and a generation come to life, and Bengy makes it come alive.... what it was like then .... says Mom, Eric has added to make it all come alive ... " I don't know what to think, it's hard to be the subject of a book ... they never ask people what they think about adoption and being adopted. That's why I wrote the book. I told them what I thought. Now it is all written in black-and=white, mother was a dreadful alcoholic, I am much more sympathetic than I was to her. I can't deal wit this, your screaming and yelling. The heating system had gone out here in Brazil, and so I said : "  Harry you put her back on the plane to go back to home, .....mother did not want a child, we were never close, she wanted a symbol, I was brought up according to Meridian's Corsican standards, she did not speak English, i spent all day with this woman that yacked at e, it was weird, i did not understand anything, all tjose years when a young girl bonds with her mother, it never happened for meme, first a nurse, them Meridiam i never really knew mother until i was twelve, i don't know what mother thought of me? " says Mom  " I am muc more understanding of mother. What she thought she was doing - impressing the neighbors! That's tough on a kid. I was akid! Eric's book has explained mother to me. having a book written about you is an experience. It's mostly eric's interpretation of what i have written and what i have told him, it's bee an experience, he hasn't given up on me! " Mom laughs, he's been very persistent, he has to read it to me . It's been a real experience for me learning about myself, why i did or why i felt so little affection for mother, i think mother loved cars. it's a mote idea : what did she love better, me or the Oldsmobile, " Mom laughed! " You took the child then, no questions asked. I think the whole thing should be abolished. Anyway, I'm going to hang up now ... " Mom says ... Let's stop talking now. I love you very much. Call me soon. " says Mom to me and the phone is hung up and push the button on my mobile home line , too! What a great conversation. We spoke of you earlier upstairs so that is not written here Larry. We both said how great you sounded and how nice it was to talk to you and hear your voice. then she wanted your number as I told her I would call you so I came down here to my computer to type this and give her your number and I am thrilled that I did and have it down and can share it hear now with you. Love you, call you really soon. Have a great Friday,  TONY  11/28/ 2014  ... the day after Thanksgiving here at home in northern Virginia ... it's nice outside, took Louie Abigail's cat outside earlier when I went to get the Washington Post newspaper. There are lots of typos here and I will try and correct them before sending this to you now, if not, try and make the