/blog/JackXsup/?pid=f7780 [image][COLOR green][SIZE 5]Now to Write, Not Just Talk About It[/COLOR][[/size][SIZE 4]As a novelist who suffered "writer's block," writing this Blog has freed my mind to write once again.It is time to do just that. Write my novel.[/SIZE][COLOR darkblue][SIZE 3]"Notes on a Writer's Life," was fun and useful, but became a preoccupation in itself. Now it's time to devote my writing to my book single mindily. There may still be times to post progress or even seek advice. But not at all frequently.So this is the point I really say goodbye.And thank my loyal followers and all who commented on my efforts.Not goodbye then but farewell. I've enjoyed your company.[/SIZE][/COLOR][SIZE 3][COLOR purple]I will always be an usher seeking a place for you at my table to "sup" awhile; that is share rest and sustenance.[/SIZE][/COLOR] [[COLOR green][SIZE 2][I]Graphic Credit: Done by Artful1000, a sterling artist and poet, on All Poetry a site where she had a mystery running for audience and actors. I' was the Usher."[/I][/SIZE][/COLOR][SIZE 2][I]Everything that brings joy to you, take it to your soul to drive the sorrows away[/I][/SIZE] /blog/3971/post_120618.html?pid=f7780&m= Good Intentions of Frequent Updates ThwartedNo news good news; well, not all the time.It seems someone tried to swipe our communal laptop, cutting the combination padlock cord, but that wasn't enough, Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:08:20 -0800 /blog/3971/post_120618.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_119741.html?pid=f7780&m= Played hooky not by choice, precautions held me hostageLapse in posting something new not oversight: just that my hall was put off limits due to some cases of stomach virus. Lifted today. Thank God. I Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:40:25 -0800 /blog/3971/post_119741.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_119314.html?pid=f7780&m= TO BEHEART3: An Open Heart to YouThis open letter is for all to know how much I still love you.Forgive me for being such a dolt for missing certain dates and anniversaries.I do, and did, remember fond Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:04:54 -0800 /blog/3971/post_119314.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_119036.html?pid=f7780&m= Days so full, nights to rest fullyDemanding task, this retro-fitting. Twice a day to "Rehab," (rehabilitation,that is), aching places I didn't know I had muscles.Then three full meals a day, one on to Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:09:06 -0800 /blog/3971/post_119036.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_118138.html?pid=f7780&m= Summmary Previous Scenes:[NO SPL CK]Thomas Hoeft's wife announces she is leaving him because she cannot escape her desire "to have other men." They have just made strenuous, and to Tom p Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:31:05 -0800 /blog/3971/post_118138.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_118112.html?pid=f7780&m= Deterioration of Many Residents NoticeableAfter five months absence from The Laurels here in North Carolina, I'm struck with how many of its patients have declined so much since my last stay.I broke m Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:18:58 -0800 /blog/3971/post_118112.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_118067.html?pid=f7780&m= Something I'm Not Always Known For, Offering Praise to the Lord for MusicTonight afriend, a smoking buddy, in fact, invited me to come listen to a musical group, The Hardin Family, Christian singers l Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:35:27 -0800 /blog/3971/post_118067.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_118019.html?pid=f7780&m= I'VE A CUP OF COLD SHERBERT IN HAND TO WARM ME,...33-deg. just got in from it--SMOKING. Must be crazy. And I'm eating a cup of tangerine sorbet, given me as a snack by my sitters here at the Center. I Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:10:39 -0800 /blog/3971/post_118019.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_117814.html?pid=f7780&m= When snow came down, the valley became a plate of milk. At times it clabbered like my grandfather's favorite dish of curdled milk. Other times the snow looked like fresh milked cow's creamy pail-full Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:31:44 -0800 /blog/3971/post_117814.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_117795.html?pid=f7780&m= SURE IF SLOW. SMALL STROKE WITH OPERATION. WRITE WHEN CAN BETTER. jACX Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:09:44 -0800 /blog/3971/post_117795.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_117218.html?pid=f7780&m= Infections Among Elderly Are Many, But Mine Needs the Scalpel, Tissues Won't Do "Off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard Of Oz." Yet I hope the wizard is only the surgeon who fixed my hip two week Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:52 -0800 /blog/3971/post_117218.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_117101.html?pid=f7780&m= Prosaic Heading Doesn't Spell Half Of This DayBack to normal CNA (Nurse Assistant) to guide me to dress myself much as I can now--not the slow coming, slowly acting therapy hall worker who makes me a Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:25:36 -0800 /blog/3971/post_117101.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_117038.html?pid=f7780&m= Just Another Day of Struggle at The Laurels I Only talked with Bill briefly in the hall this evening at The Laurels. He is here for long-term care, seen over lovingly by a surprisingly younger wife. W Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:44:43 -0800 /blog/3971/post_117038.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_117001.html?pid=f7780&m= Accomplished Man With Glimmering Energy for Life and BrillianceWhat is a serendipity? I'm not someone who dwells on such things, but in my meager understanding, a serendipity is an event either small Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:44:26 -0800 /blog/3971/post_117001.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_116914.html?pid=f7780&m= Do we always know why or wherefore of everything?Life seems to have it's little "cuss-spots," as I will call the consternatious places along the way where we want to pull hair, gnash our teeth, and in Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:33:46 -0800 /blog/3971/post_116914.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_115671.html?pid=f7780&m= Gleaming Blue, Sparkling Rollator Has BrakesMy old walker got a bit beat up. I treated it rough, as you all know from past episodes with my valiant "Humvee" Named in honor of all the troops who conguo Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:45:48 -0800 /blog/3971/post_115671.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_115278.html?pid=f7780&m= Clarification: Not Tom but Jerry Rules my HouseIf Tom is the cat, then I'm Tom--Thomas Hoeft, that is, the author of The End Of Night. The mouse that plaques us, me, is then Jerry, the wiley mouse in Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:47:16 -0800 /blog/3971/post_115278.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_115027.html?pid=f7780&m= Asleep, Yet, But for Incessant Clacking in My HeadMany years ago, far, far away, eons now in the mind of this sleepwalker; in fact, 46 long years away, living among the hills and valleys of San Franci Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:18:40 -0800 /blog/3971/post_115027.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_114819.html?pid=f7780&m= Many Blessings, Including Way To ComeTo Purge My Mind of Hypothermia,Given On Good AuthorityThe cold I've known that can be so severe it is likea block of burning dry ice in my head that spreadstentac Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:01:42 -0800 /blog/3971/post_114819.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/3971/post_114654.html?pid=f7780&m= Surprise! Not Spy Receiver but Connector SprungParanoid delusions can get the best of you if you let them. Luckily, I didn't keep up the fantasy of a spy in my tooth. Instead I went to the dentist.Gue Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:11:00 -0800 /blog/3971/post_114654.html?pid=f7780&m=