tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438042012227822100.post8606387412178709196..comments2023-11-19T18:15:34.437+00:00Comments on The Buddhist Hospice Trust Blog: Mrs Waveney MillerPeter Goblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09955095006009840804noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438042012227822100.post-33925511757151406142008-09-15T15:11:00.002+01:002008-09-15T15:11:00.002+01:00Thanks for your comments, Stephen, and I stand cor...Thanks for your comments, Stephen, and I stand corrected. As you say, Waveney would surely have put me right about her provenance in Guyana, and I overlaid her narrative about visiting the Buddhist Society with memories of my own teenage experiences of going to London to train as a nurse, as Waveney and I were more or less contemporaries, and I met a lot of young West Indian nurses around that time (1956-59).<BR/><BR/>She often spoke of you, and your influence on her reached me indirectly, and positively I feel, as she no doubt intended it should! And Waveney didn't give up easily. As you say, an extremely remarkable person.<BR/><BR/>I hope you don't mind my publishing your comments; by their nature blogs are, in my view, best left as they were written, 'warts and all', but I will refer to your comments in an upcoming blog, so your additional information can be taken on board.Peter Goblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955095006009840804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438042012227822100.post-1222718059350064542008-09-15T15:11:00.001+01:002008-09-15T15:11:00.001+01:00Thanks for your comments, Stephen, and I stand cor...Thanks for your comments, Stephen, and I stand corrected. As you say, Waveney would surely have put me right about her provenance in Guyana, and I overlaid her narrative about visiting the Buddhist Society with memories of my own teenage experiences of going to London to train as a nurse, as Waveney and I were more or less contemporaries, and I met a lot of young West Indian nurses around that time (1956-59).<BR/><BR/>She often spoke of you, and your influence on her reached me indirectly, and positively I feel, as she no doubt intended it should! And Waveney didn't give up easily. As you say, an extremely remarkable person.<BR/><BR/>I hope you don't mind my publishing your comments; by their nature blogs are, in my view, best left as they were written, 'warts and all', but I will refer to your comments in an upcoming blog, so your additional information can be taken on board.Peter Goblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955095006009840804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438042012227822100.post-3049906668134139412008-09-15T15:11:00.000+01:002008-09-15T15:11:00.000+01:00Thanks for your comments, Stephen, and I stand cor...Thanks for your comments, Stephen, and I stand corrected. As you say, Waveney would surely have put me right about her provenance in Guyana, and I overlaid her narrative about visiting the Buddhist Society with memories of my own teenage experiences of going to London to train as a nurse, as Waveney and I were more or less contemporaries, and I met a lot of young West Indian nurses around that time (1956-59).<BR/><BR/>She often spoke of you, and your influence on her reached me indirectly, and positively I feel, as she no doubt intended it should! And Waveney didn't give up easily. As you say, an extremely remarkable person.<BR/><BR/>I hope you don't mind my publishing your comments; by their nature blogs are, in my view, best left as they were written, 'warts and all', but I will refer to your comments in an upcoming blog, so your additional information can be taken on board.Peter Goblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955095006009840804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438042012227822100.post-44685163576507867152008-09-12T20:29:00.000+01:002008-09-12T20:29:00.000+01:00Dear Peter,Somewhat belatedly, I have just come ac...Dear Peter,<BR/><BR/>Somewhat belatedly, I have just come across your nice piece about our dear friend Waveney. But I couldn't help but notice a few errors of hich you may be unaware.<BR/><BR/>First, Waveney would have been a bit peeved to be labelled as West Indian -- she was born in Guyana and proud of that. And Guyana as you may know is in South America, not the Caribbean. <BR/><BR/>She first visited the Buddhist Society in 1982, when she was in her late 40s-- hardly newly arrived as you put it. After a few months dabbling in other classes there, she then joined my Tibetan Buddhism class and I was her first teacher (in conjunction with Ato Rinpoche) for over five years. I also taught every month at the small group she had organized at her house in Ashford during the early 80s. So she had not actually been involved in Buddhism for 50 years as you suggest -- but 28 years. Still a long time, though, during which time she made rapid progress, so I am sure she must have had contact with Buddhism in previous lives -- her "Japanese" period, perhaps ?<BR/><BR/>I hope you do not find these few corrections irksome, but I am sure we both will agree that she was all-in-all an extremely remarkable person who will be missed by all who knew her over the years.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes,<BR/>Stephen Hodge<BR/><BR/>PS: You needn't post this message -- you could just make a few alterations to your piece.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01392169318114558403noreply@blogger.com