When Louise Kinross father dies, she can’t help but notice the coincidences – or are they parting gifts from her father – that she comes across while grieving
The day before Dad died, I picked up a book about the Group of Seven for him in the hospital gift shop. I couldn’t take my eyes off one image: a pine tree bent on its side, green branches flailing in the wind like a wild dancer. Beyond it, the waves of Georgian Bay lashed out in strokes of white, blue and ochre.
“You learned to live with fear,” he said, recalling how he went out to fix telephone lines on Pegasus Bridge under intense shelling during the 1944 D-day invasion of Normandy. “There was a bridge over the canal and when you landed on the coast you had to get over it. Naturally, the Germans were shelling it day and night.”
But in the hospital, Dad can’t sleep. Monitors squawk and an IV bloodies his arm. He won’t lay back. Up he goes, feet to floor, head in hands. He rallies, clapping his hands to the tempo, tapping his feet, and waving an exuberant arm like a conductor. I know he doesn’t want us to be afraid. But I’m terrified.Not long after, I began seeing and feeling his presence. Strange happenings that I interpreted as his clever farewells.with many Group of Seven original paintings on the walls. I was astounded. We had all seen the book I bought but it felt like my dad wanted Mom to see the real thing.
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