Slept in to about 7am when i got to finish some web stuff, answering texts and comments etc. Was about to walk at 8am, when i found out from the two brothers that the brother I had driven to the hosptal last night (Tim, a former soccer player and coach, who was now skin and bones) had got a CT scan, and they had found a brain tumour, (& possible lung cancer). He needed an operation very soon, & was being moved soon to the Royal Melbourne hospital for it.
Mike had hardly slept last night and ( on his request) i decided to stay at least another day to help or just BE with them where possible. Got to do a few little jobs with fruit to be composted.
Very interesting day after that.
A few chances to draw some 3 min portraits (that ended up being of the person's distant relative), to read, and cogitate, discuss good things with a number of friends on the phone, and write and play with ideas... as in the post below. I spoke/sang the bones of it (& recorded) on the way out of Gisborne the other day. Today while Mike was trying to catch up on sleep I got to do another draft and do one play with it on his piano in another part of the house.
A lot of fun...
We'll see what happens tonight.
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Wow, what a lovely time together going into town to buy dinner, then talking over dinner with one of the brothers and his two children. Lively and lovely time together. I think we all appreciated it.
After sharing my cringe-worthy poetry & music, Mike is going to start tonight using his prodigious musical and song-writing gifts to serve humanity, I think in the form of describing his situation now, in various real difficulties, rather than waiting till everything is "onky dory". I said I'd have a go at it too.
We'll share what we come up with tomorrow.
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