Poets and Saints"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?" "No. The saints and poets, maybe. They do some." --From Thorton Wilder's Our TownFLOOR THREE- July 17, 2005 It's been a long time. When you live in crisis mode, there is very little energy left for creative writing or even, for that matter, crappy writing. At the end of the day, there is just very little of anything left. It's been over three months now and Sam's veins have hardened to the point that I can't touch his arms. They hurt too much. The oncologist's office where he gets chemo is on the third floor of Medical Building Two. We take the elevator because he is too tired to take the...http://blogs.salon.com/0002857/2005/07/16.html#a119 |