In the sticks
This year I have been afflicted in various ways, by the builders being in and out for weeks on end, and more still to come, by falling over a manhole which resulted in some stitches to the upper lip and drinking through a straw for a week or so, and by an ear infection which caused great wobbling.
So I took to a stick. This is now part of me and I use it while the infection takes its time to go away.
However, along with the stick has come a certain degree of attention. There are lots of people of my age using them. However my attention has been taken by a young man with a growing family who regularly uses a walking stick, to great effect! He looks terrific and has great dignity, rather like those old school army officers who were accustomed to use a walking stick when on their rounds, evoking the image of a landowner visiting the estate rather than a young subaltern making his presence felt with his leather covered cane in hand or tucked under the arm.
May be this article could be recovered, the walking stick.
Is there a case for a movement to "bring back the walking stick"?
I only ask!
Fr Ted
So I took to a stick. This is now part of me and I use it while the infection takes its time to go away.
However, along with the stick has come a certain degree of attention. There are lots of people of my age using them. However my attention has been taken by a young man with a growing family who regularly uses a walking stick, to great effect! He looks terrific and has great dignity, rather like those old school army officers who were accustomed to use a walking stick when on their rounds, evoking the image of a landowner visiting the estate rather than a young subaltern making his presence felt with his leather covered cane in hand or tucked under the arm.
May be this article could be recovered, the walking stick.
Is there a case for a movement to "bring back the walking stick"?
I only ask!
Fr Ted
posted by Fr Ted at 11:22 am
1 Comments:
Fr. After atemporary injury to my knee in my 20s i recognised the beauty of the stick. I have a small colection of unusual or atractive sticks, which I like to 'take out,' but am to often mistaken for an invalid. They should be the next fasion accesory, but you obviously need panash to carry it off. Sadly I do not seem to have that elusive gift.
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