It was great beginning.. now, don’t get me wrong… it’s still a great day. It was agreat beginning… at 9:30 35 kids from the Natioanl School came over to the new studio and we made christmas prezzies and trees and stockings and finger painter and laughed and got silly and then went away and I went to Sligo to visit a writer who is ailing and whom I am a big fan.
It was , I admitt a bit checky to walk into the Sligo hosiptal and seek out the bed of Leland Bardwell, but I had that she suffered a mini stroke at the top of May and I had just finished reading her lastest book, her biograghy ” A Restless Life”.
Sometimes you just have to do it.
Thats what I did. Ms Bardwell thought that I was nurse coming to her therapy. She leapt out of the bed.I was amazed she was in such fine fettle. When she realised that wasn’t who she keenly wanted to see, she was, gracious, but disappointed. I could not blame her. The thing that the stroke seemed to effect was her reading. She cannot read. She can just about write.. but ten minutes later… she cannot read what she has written. It is a great injustice . A pain in the hole.
She needs therapy and I for one hope she gets it. She has a sharp mind and a huge legacy-(she’s 87) And in her own words she driven capacity for bouncing back.
Bravo Ms Bardwell. Keep bouncing!
Another one that keeps bouncing is Sean Dixon, Canadain writer and friend with a book called
The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon.
It’s about a bookclub that reads the oldest book in the world. Sounds curious. Sounds like I should pick it up.
Glad to hear from you Sean… and best of luck with the next one.
Tuesdays…. got to go abook club calls my name… The Way of Merlin is on the table….Its up to the mountains for me.
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always eileen