[Clive Watkins]

I'm very sorry to hear this news and wish Tim a happy outcome to his treatment.

Clive Watkins

[Michael Cantor]

Best wishes, Tim. I have great faith in your ability to get through this, and emerge from the surgery with a clean bill of health and a load of good poems about the experience.

[David Anthony]

God bless you, Tim.

[R. S. Gwynn]

Good luck, Tim. You are made of sterner stuff.

[Roger Slater]

We're all pulling for you, Tim. May your path to full recovery not involve too much discomfort.

[Susan McLean]

It is good to hear that the cancer was caught at an early stage. I hope that that means that the surgery is relatively easy and the recovery quick and lasting.

Susan

[Tim Murphy]

Thanks to one and all. They just go down your throat and don't open you up, so it's noninvasive surgery. And I have a great model of courage in the face of cancer in Alan. In Sam too. My brother asked a good question, are you afraid of death? I am not. I'll just hand Peter a copy of Devotions and then have a jolly reunion with Alan.

[Tim Murphy]

Thanks again to all for prayers and best wishes. Dr. Johnson stopped in for an hour Friday to view my 21 Charles Becks, hear a couple odes, and compare cognac to calvados. He wants me to go to the Mayo Clinic, where my brother sees a professor of gastroenterology for a precancerous lesion of his own. Here is yesterday's new prayer to Alan. Tim

Pathologist’s Report

We forded Baffinland’s bone-chilling streams
near an inukshuk marked le Cercle Arctique.
Wyoming’s Barnard was our loftiest peak,
I fished trout from Montana’s tarns and streams.

Past our horizon, Anegada Reef,
graveyard of inbound Spanish treasure ships,
grilled lobster buttery on my blistered lips,
decades of sailing never came to grief.

My life already boasts sufficient length,
high adventures in the mountainous West,
serious squalls at sea, a skipper’s test.
Cancer? Alan, look down, lend me your strength.

[Max Goodman]

I'm thinking of you, Tim. All best wishes.

[Siham Karami]

So sorry to hear this, Tim, but at the same time encouraged at the good prognosis for recovery and the fact its treatment is non-invasive. Praying for your full and complete recovery, God willing. Otherwise “in perfect health” bodes well for you.

All the best,
Siham