Where It's At...

Just to confirm our rendezvous: Thursday, May 4, at Guido's. Do we have a time? Or is it at the same time (which is what?)?

If you guys aren't busy, the YWCA is having a Preview Party of the new resale shop MOXIE this Friday (Moi is on the board) 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. It's located at 1600 2nd Ave., downtown Rock Island. The old Hyman's Furniture building across from Subway. It's an awesome structure. If I had ooooodles of money I would put a chi-chi bar/lounge on the top floor. I think it would be the perfect hangout for us villains, and we could make it exclusive to whomever we wish. Create the demand, then watch them weep when they can't make the invite list.

I'm Done!

I finished reading Sunday. I don't feel any better about Joan Didion's outcome than I did when I started the book. I don't think that she accomplished the healing process, and is stuck in limbo between wishing that John were still alive and expecting John to still walk through the door. I think she could still go on wishing he were still alive, that seems to be a coping mechanism that she could deal with. The expectation for him to reappear is holding her back. I think she knows this however because of those little voices in italics that appear from time to time in the text. I wonder if she knew she was writing those.

I did like the book a lot and want to read some of her other writings and some of John's as well.

Joan's Grief Part 2

So I'm mid-way through the book (should be more that halfway but the only time I read is before bed and I can't get through one page before the eyelids droop) and I don't want to be callous but she keeps repeating the events on the day of Dec. 30, 2003. I'm wondering when I get the end of the book whether she's really going to come out of this or not.

I must of not grieved hard enough or long enough for something, but my philosophy has been to feel sad for awhile, and that's ok, but eventually you have to get up and get going. No use hashing over events repeatedly. Is it magical to really fool oneself into thinking that a dead person will really come back?