Hello ARdith,

On Wed 2038-May-12 23:26, Ardith Hinton (1:153/716) wrote to James Bradley:


JB>  Not the caboose "end". *8-0


AH>           Ah, the conclusion of the coda?  To me a caboose is a rail
AH> car added to the rear end of a train.  The caboose is different from
AH> all the other cars. With luck you'll see a man sitting there who
AH> will wave at the kids & the young at heart who wave at him.  But the
AH> coda is different from the rest of the song too.  That's where the
AH> would-be screech trumpeters (for example) take the last few notes up
AH> an octave, without regard for the agony they may be inflicting on
AH> the clarinet section.  Either way there's some sort of parting
AH> ritual....  :-) 

YEp, us old jazz heads just call 'em head and tail.  Had an
old rock guitarist I worked with years ago who always called the head the
"edge."  TOok me awhile to get used to his
terminology .




AH>           Okay.  But as a former teacher & as a parent living life
AH> in the slow lane, I break the task into smaller steps.  First I warn
AH> Nora that we're about to leave.  I allow her a few minutes to get
AH> used to the idea.  I may also help her put on her splint & shoes. 
AH> Then I ask whether she needs to use the toilet before we depart. 
AH> Then we have to get out of the place.  If there are stairs, Dallas &
AH> I will have to assist her in getting down just as we did when she
AH> was going up.  If we've brought the wheelchair along & if we're not
AH> within walking distance of home, it will take us another five
AH> minutes or so to strap down the wheelchair etc. before we can drive
AH> away.  And as a student of language I know "coda" is more accurately
AH> translated as the "tail" rather than the "end". 
The end is where
AH> you see a thin line & a fat line parallel to each other....  :-)) 

Yep, the good ol' double bar .

SOunds much like the process of getting Kathleen on the road home from
somewhere.  Unless it's a quick in and out
somewhere we put her in her wheelchair.  This means she
pulls into parking space, I go around to rear of van,
partially reassmble the wheelchair, bring it up to the
driver's side of the van, let her get out, hand me her
oxygen tank which I stow in the back of the chair, get her
situated.  GOing home, we plan our exit, me to assist in and out of a
restroom door if she needs to pay a visit there,
get her out the door, usually backwards so the blind man's
feet feel where he's going to put her, and my body measures
the doorway to hit it square, so she does a lot of traveling backwards
.  Then we take her to the van, put her purse
inside, let her get out of the chair, hand her oxygen tank,
take chair around to rear, partially disassemble chair, stow it, etc.



Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+