Charles Grant update

Short version: still in hospital. Still in ICU. Lung partially collapsed again, but it has been reinflated. Kath and his brother Jack are spending as much time as they can with him. When (when, damn it!) he comes home, there will be hospice care arranged for him.

It's been five weeks since C. went into the hospital.


Updates when I hear more.

one last before I fade...

I thought I was all quizzed out. But this one intrigued me enough to take it.


:: how jedi are you? ::


At least it wasn't a small green muppet. I don't think I could have dealt with that.

on writing: writing out your anguish

So CGAG met last week, and as part of the conversation, somehow we ended up talking about writing out of internal conflict, a.k.a. "using the shit life throws at you."


One of our members (call this person 'Z') came out and admitted that s/he was uncomfortable with the entire concept of digging down deep (or not so deep, in some cases) and pulling the emotion out of his/herself. Z worried that in doing so, s/he might uncork things best left, well, corked up. And that it wasn't worth it for the writing. That, if Z had to actually dig that out in order to get something saleworthy and memorable, maybe writing wasn't worth the cost to Z's peace of mind.

I can understand that, I guess.

Well, no, actually I can't.

*warning: what follows is purely my own, deeply held, deeply felt personal opinion*

( Writing from the Gut: A Mental Ramble )

Of course, I may also be completely full of shite.