Lebanese Omens

The following events are unaltered in chronological order and completely true.

In January/February of 2008 I took a trip to the Canadian West-coast with my uncle and Dad. We spent short amounts of time in many BC cities, one of them being Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. It was my first time there and while there I decided that it was where I wanted to live in the near future. I came home from the trip and applied to Malaspina College, now Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo.

In or around March of 2008 I bought a book at the dinky little used bookstore on Rideau St. beside the Bytowne Cinema, in Ottawa, Ontario. It's called The Wanderer, and it's written by Kahlil Gibran, a turn of the century Lebanese poet who preached simple messages of relativism and equality, things like you are who you are and ain't who you ain't. Ben, my old roommate got me onto him when I expressed some interest in Taoism. I didn't open The Wanderer until yesterday, August 9th, 2008, from the bed of my residence-room at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, B.C. Between the coffee-stained frontcover and the first page was a homemade postcard.



On the reverse side of that postcard reads the following message. I left out Elizabeth's last name and address but I have attempted contacting her via Facebook.

Aug. 27, 1970.

Hello Lizah,
Hope you have fully recovered from the accident and are able to use your head once again. It's a good thing we were able to talk the staff at the hospital out of giving you a transplant.
There are so many beautiful things to see - ocean, mountains, pink + blue sunsets; to smell - cedar + millions of flowers; to taste - blackberries + other fruits; to hear - gulls; and to touch - rain...But I'm lonesome + want to go home but my Mom + Dad would be hurt so stay I will.
Give "Rose" a big Hug for me + say hello to friends please. See you soon + may be sooner than that.
Here there is a large X and a large O followed by a smaller X and O, there is an arrow pointing to the larger ones with the name Rose and then the smaller one's are labeled for Lizah, and it says "She needs bigger one's"
Love to you, Pinky
P.S. I read the water colour book quickly before I gave it to you. Have you ever thought of buying an extremely large tea pot, just thought I'd ask.

Miss Elizabeth ___________
___ Bradford St.
Britannia,
Ottawa, Ont.

Would you please tell Arlene that I found the bear pattern + I'll send it to her along with the other sweater pattern. Thanks.

The post-office stamp on the postcard reads:

Nanaimo
5PM
August 28
1970
B.C.