It must be fame.
Sort of. The rock pile has made the front page of the Lamma community
website!
Herman, who puts
vast amounts of effort and time into the lamma.com.hk website, has been gently
prompting me to write something for him for a while. Given my reluctance to
produce anything he's taken the matter into his own hands and posted a
story about the pile and my reasons for building it
etc..
It's strange how
what started out as a form of exercise has taken on a life of it's own.
It's not just people who see me sweating over a sandy boulder on the beach who
ask what I'm doing. Other people contribute a rock or two to the pile on their
daily walks, and I'm now have people coming up to me in the street and asking
whether I'm really the obsessive one who's been building "that big cairn
thing...."
Strange. But
good too. It's another sign that I'm moving on with my life. Leukaemia and
its after effects are no longer the first topics that spring to peoples minds
when they see me. There are other things to converse about and that
pleases me.
