Luke
International Luke Day.
Well, national.
Well, me.
Today is thirteen years since my closest friend died.
Gulp.
Italics just fit.
I need to fulfill a promise and throw a necklace into the harbour if I ever get to Hong Kong.
This ain't something else
International Luke Day.
Well, national.
Well, me.
Today is thirteen years since my closest friend died.
Gulp.
Italics just fit.
I need to fulfill a promise and throw a necklace into the harbour if I ever get to Hong Kong.
January 21st, 2006 at 8:48 am
So sorry.
What’s the significance of the necklace - if you don’t mind telling us about it?
January 22nd, 2006 at 12:17 am
Consider it International.
January 22nd, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Story goes like this.
Two kids meet. Both 14 year olds sharing a room at school with parents hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Friendship develops and hopes exchanged, we says one day we will go back to the place where we grew up. Me to Philadelphia, him to Hong Kong, particularly the harbour and the views from the boats there. One day, when we are 16, he has a medical crisis which involves me helping him through it.
We remain friends and go on to university. During that time, I go back to visit Philly. He still doesn’t have time to go to Hong Kong. When I return the the UK, the medical crisis happens again, and he dies.
I turn up at his house and our circle of friends ask me if there is anything of his that I want. I choose a small key ring, which I went on to wear around my neck for a couple of years.
We bury Luke in the Neds Atomic Dustbin t-shirt I bought for him last time we met.
I vow, one day, to throw the key ring into the harbour he wished so much to see again, so a part of him will go back to Hong Kong one day.
Thanks for asking.
January 22nd, 2006 at 9:15 pm
One more reason why UK Cliff Rocks.
Even if he did grow up in Philly.
January 22nd, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Hope you get to go to HK as soon as possible.
It is changing so rapidly, that soon, it will be very different from the one that has been 20 years ago …
January 23rd, 2006 at 3:50 am
I’ll send out the vibes to help it happen Cliff.
With love,
Your sister (Susan Jones)
January 23rd, 2006 at 8:27 am
Hey, you know the guitar player from the Joneses, Billy Loosigian,is a good friend of mine. He even plays one of my V’s. He’s on tour in Paris for the next week or so.;)
January 23rd, 2006 at 9:06 am
Cheers all.
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Hey - January 20th was the 14th anniversary of my Dad’s passing. My dad’s name was Luke, too. Maybe they’re both wherever good souls go after they leave the earth, playing poker and watching over us. I like to think so.
-Julie