Being Good In The Dark: Suffering With Cancer Like Good People

Theater structures emotion.  And around here have usually preferred our lives to resemble a musical comedy, with lots of absurdity and silliness.  It isn't that we don't take ourselves seriously.  It's that we know that seriousness isn't always in the long face or the serious talk. 

Really, it's in love.  And really good love knows how to laugh, when to weep.  Mostly how not to stare unendingly at itself and its needs.  In fact good comedy takes life very seriously.

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Update on Mom: 5/24/2010

She's sleeping now.  Dad is doing dishes: I offered, he said no.  He wants to do things.  He likes being in motion.  I confess I like it too.

When you're doing things you can keep from thinking about The Big Picture.  You're looking at details, like a short-seller on Wall Street, taking profits in the moment.

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Oncology & Mistakes

Love has its price, and we're paying it.  I mustn't make my students pay it today.  Instead I must, ironically (and for the last time in the foreseeable future) judge how they have done against an ideal, and what mistakes they have made against a pattern that has been set for them.

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