11585 Barry Macleod - 1981 - a photo on Flickriver

11585 Barry Macleod - 1981

            Another old shot, this one of my friend Barry, who bit the dust in 1986. Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 44. For the last eight years of his life, he lived in a cabin at Tugwell Creek, along the south coast of Vancouver Island. Winters were tough, with constant dampness and waves that sometimes came perilously close to washing the cabin away. I spent more than one Christmas with him, playing chess, staring out to sea, watching for orcas and seals. He was a writer, a unique and gifted storyteller, and perhaps the funniest and most generous person I've ever known. He gave his time, attention, interest, and hospitality, all of which are worth a lot more than mere things. 

For your amusement, here's an excerpt from a little thumbnail sketch he wrote about me. Some of it may have been true:

Page arrived in his rusted old car with the tattered maroon seat covers, carrying a giant backpack that could have housed a family of three.
   And kleenex. Boxes and boxes of kleenex.
   Ever since I've known him the kleenex has been there. He must get hay fever from life itself.
   But he's easy to allow for.
   He needs extra sleep.
   He gets cranky for small intervals and when he gets really bored he just walks away and comes back later when things have changed.
   We spent four days sitting at the kitchen table looking out the window at the gray. A gray Christmas. We had... a game of chess that he bullied me into. At dinner I had to drink his bottle of wine, too.
   We talked about his new-found love from Whitehorse.
   I gave him the benefit of the doubt because I respect his opinion, but she seemed too straight.
   When he left, all I said was, "See you around," because I didn't know how to tell a person with all women friends and a runny nose that I'd miss him.
   So I'll just wait to see the migration of his wide angle lens through the caribou herds, and that first northern flower reaching through the tundra, searching for spring.

Photographed at Tugwell Creek, Vancouver Island, BC (Canada); scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1981 James R. Page - all rights reserved.  
   

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Shirley (show map)

Taken on: August 1, 1981

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