"My brother Jimmy, he Kalchut, he sick. He visit yesterday." OK. I'll look at him. But you may need Weena." Weena?" She's a nurse. A sister." No nurse... Kalchut won't take pills." Don't worry. Weena knows bush medicine."Jacky was quiet. Jimmy wasn't his brother, but his blood-brother bonded from a tribe in southwest Queensland. When we got to the campsite I parked and we walked over to where Jimmy was on a pile of grass under a blanket."You crook, Jimmy?" Feel awful."I touched his forehead. I. First, I had, had too much to drink, and then to make matters worse I had lost my cool and gone off the deep end. What a stupid jerk I had been. Nothing in my life seemed to be going right. I had been married for 12 years to one of the most loving and beautiful women in the entire world. To say that she was the epitome of a perfect woman would be an understatement. She was very smart, sexy and above all, perfection in the flesh.We lived in a suburban neighborhood, in the outskirts of a large. Laughter and guttural jests in the other rooms of my home were punctuated by the crash of breaking furniture and glass. But here it was quiet. My eyes still fixed on the wall, I waited. Moments passed and the quiet endured. When finally I turned, the soldier was still on his knees by my bed, his face buried in his hands as he silently wept. For a flittering moment I felt the urge to reach out and touch him on the shoulder, until my anger flared and crushed the despicable notion. To evoke such a. "Reseph?" ``Yes my dear." I could not breathe all the air seemed to have rushed out of me. Reseph left the room in his nakedness and left me to try and slow my mind. All the dreams I have had fighting side by side in old wars, him and I husband and wife and the painful death I experienced. Hearing his footsteps and my dog talking brought my attention to the door. Now I do not mean my dog formed words but I mean how dogs usually speak. Reseph entered the room with two cups of coffee and gave.