on 10/9/05 2:33 PM, Jennifer Compton at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Whiting Fellow in Rome next year for 6 months which I am expecting to enjoy as
> much as it is possible to enjoy anything.
> Now I will go back to slowly working on the poem I started waiting in the
> Distressed Relatives Room at the Alfred Hospital for my daughter to be
> airlifted in.
Talk about the mingled skeins of the tapestry of life, JC! and looking
forward to reading whatever emerges.
There is a room familiar to my wife and me at another hospital, which we
called The Crying Room, not learning the name actually used.
We saw a woman yesterday in a Balwyn cafe with her head in a metal wigwam
attached to her shoulder, perhaps such a 'halo'. She was laughing away,
happy to be out and about perhaps - the phrase 'almost laughing her head
off' came to mind.
Max Richards
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