Friday Is Funday?
Try as I might, I can’t find any upbeat stories about mental illness. Today it’s all gloom and doom. It’s raining here and is one of those days that makes me want to stay home with my head in a book. Right now I’m reading The Forsyte Saga (a trilogy with an interlude) by John Galsworthy, and it’s just about the best thing I’ve ever done with my time. The interlude — “Indian Summer of a Forsyte” — made me cry so hard, I simply could not recover myself for hours. I still feel sad about it.
After my talk at DBSA, the group gave me a gift card to Barnes and Noble. How could they have known how perfect that was? It calls to mind my favorite quotation:
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
That really sums up my entire existence.
[Part of this image's name is "LZZZZZ." Were I in the frame of magical thinking, I'd see that as a sign.]
liz | 10:56 AM | Uncategorized
It actually has two interludes, Liz! I went to a library today and found that book just to see what could cause so much crying (I didn’t have anything else to do today). Actually, I took a bus up to a nearby mountain town and found the book in the mountain town’s library. (It got to 109 degrees here today, so I ran from the heat).
Anyway, I found that book and I started reading the second interlude (I think it was called something like “Awakening”.) It didn’t seem too cry-worthy, and I looked at the table of contents and saw that there were actually two – two – two interludes in that one book. To be honest, I didn’t even know that books could have interludes in them at all.
Well, now I know that, and I know what was so sad also. The guy died just when he was so elated and relieved and full of anticipation that his niece was really coming to see him, and just before he actually saw her. It kind of reminds me of a line from a song I heard long ago: “We are but a moment’s sunlight, shining in the grass.”
Addendium to previous comment: “fading in the grass” – not “shining”. (I got one word wrong):
http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~kristin/songbook/CampfireSingalongs/GetTogether.html
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