I am missing the Cliffnotes Workshop in Boulder, Utah this weekend. My, now amputee since July, husband is having some difficulties, so I am here at home, not there. I am thinking of them all though. I did want to hear what Craig Childs and the poet Dave Lee and Nancy Takos had to see..and see the photos of Bruce Hucko. I know Dave somewhat. I am always curious about writers and what they write. I attended past workshops with my sister Marge, who died suddenly in March of this year. I am also missing her. Last year she wrote and read, for the first time in the workshop about being an unwanted child, only 11 months behind her sister Gerry. It was very touching and well done. It was written on a pad and I hope someone found that work among her things. So we are missing this workshop together, on both sides of the veil.
So I thought I'd let you see the schedule and advertize a bit for the Boulder Organizers, my neice Cheryl Cox and her friend Diana Dornbush who is also a writer, and all the writers who attend. I hope they have a most excellent workshop. My nephew Raymond King Shurtz has attended and presented something about theater since the workshops began. He has started a novel with a work he covered in the workshop. He is directing a play The Man in the Black Pajamas in Phoenix. (I hope that's the right title). I would have missed him had I attended as his presentations were fun.
I will try to write something even though I am not there. That is my goal.
It's probably hard to have such a stimulating event taking place in your hometown only 90 miles away and not be there. Especially when you have been a regular visitor. I hope it is well attended enough for all to be encouraged. Old Bob with the bad legs finally died. He went peacefully to sleep after I had just seen him this week in the midst of his friends napping. I thought, he's napping when he could be talking, he must be failing, but I didn't expect it to be so fast. But his legs did not die before he did, so he was spared that. I think his heart just quit. He talked to a lot of people, every day, so he will be missed. When somebody in here dies, you think I can't possibly be too far behind. Old Bob's death is going to scare a lot of the older ones. He was such a battler to stay alive. So you are staying home for a good cause!
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