Ellie called from Denver

where she's been since last Friday. The weather there has been diametrically opposed to ours--sunshine, cool, typical Rocky Mountain stuff.

Lung cancer is ravaging her last uncle and she's there to pay a deathbed visit. In the past she spoke of him many times as the eldest of her family but now we find that there was an older sister, an aunt that somehow slipped out of memory. I think he may be the last of her father's family. The clock turns on us all.