Death and Life and Death
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Abbie Joules, younger sister of Benjamin Joules (Bendigo), recalls a difficult 'coming of age' for both herself and her brother as they live their lives on a hard-scrabble farm in east Texas during the 40's and 50's. Their aunt Sherry, to whom Bendigo is especially fond, succumbs to a deadly disease, and Bendigo is forced to face this mystery of the end of life. Dealing with his own sorrow, he decides to volunteer at the hospital, and from this perspective he learns additional valuable--and hard--lessons. His final encounter at the hospital not only marked a rite of passage, but also the beginning of the end of the Joules family.
Michael Allender
I was born in Dalhart, Texas, received degrees at Texas A&M in Wildlife Science and Psychology, and did post graduate work at Utah State in ethology. I worked as a professional photographer and wildlife artist, and authored "The Guadalupe Mountains Of Texas", published by the University of Texas Press, a coffee table book of a west Texas national park. I then worked for 25 years as a wood craftsman and entrepreneur. I currently live in Redmond, Oregon, and avail myself of every opportunity to paddle the wild rivers of the Pacific Northwest, from California to northern Canada and Alaska.
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Death and Life and Death - Michael Allender
DEATH AND LIFE AND DEATH
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Michael Allender
Copyright 2014 Michael Allender
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(The tenth in a series of fourteen stories)
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Death and Life and Death
(Story # 10)
April, 1956. All across east Texas the fifteenth of that month was a bright spring day heavy with the scent of wine cups and bluebonnets, and rife with the song of mockingbirds. I remember it especially well because two things of note happened at about the same time. Ben and I were walking in a grassy field to the west of our house when we frightened a nighthawk off her nest. We each took a quick look at the two eggs, then retreated a good distance