Friday, February 13, 2004

don't cry

more bad news in the never-ending series of plagues that beset my reading and those working on it...
 
it seems c's gung gung (grandfather) has taken a turn for the worse.  he's been ill for a while but now he's been transferred to a hospice.  she may have to leave for hawaii as soon as next week, potentially missing the reading.  well, the reading's small potatoes next to life and death.  i never got a chance to meet her grandfather, though i've heard many stories.  early in our relationship, he suffered a stroke which hobbled him quite badly.  i would never get to meet the man that c knew.  i don't know if i can make it out to hawaii -- in which case, i'll have never met him at all.
 
he's 92.
 
i edited together some house music to be played while everyone shuffles to their seats before my reading.  i tried to pick tracks that are evocative of the play.  tonight, i burned it onto a cd and played it over and over and depressed the hell out of myself...
 

1 Comments:

Blogger Raed Moustafa said...

92's not a bad way to go; & hospice's the ticket. "Lucky/"Fortunately. Worth believing in God with respect to such; I would be sure that that gentleman, had. (Maybee why he lived (so) longly & well.) (After 70 it's not worth meeting these guys - if that's any consolation there...would take 30+ years to get to know them/10 years to know you, the younger, firstly..). (Strokes are benign; our body's are more than acclimated to peri-disability: becomes almost normally after 70 years of age). (May your friend's grandfather rest in peace). God, bless you.

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