tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540823081059079520.post2398216942395712213..comments2023-09-17T02:00:23.757-07:00Comments on The Beginning of the End: Joining the Picket LineNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351731442236000266noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540823081059079520.post-62540199057741385782008-10-01T12:45:00.000-07:002008-10-01T12:45:00.000-07:00What a mess.Oh Nat - thinking the necessary though...What a mess.<BR/><BR/>Oh Nat - thinking the necessary thoughts and having the inevitable and personal reactions I am - to this case, to this blog, to your book (your book!), to the wedding next year, to the delays and hassles, the near-harassment by the justice system, the striking and the calls from human rights groups - what can I call it but a big tangled mess?<BR/><BR/>You're right to go on strike, of course - right to take the time to lay it all out and figure out where you need to be, and where, and how. *Who* you need to be.<BR/><BR/>This is a good time to write. <BR/><BR/>Writing, for me anyway, offers access to a clear space, a whole space - that, and permission to step aside from the world of actual things and land squarely on the long winding trail of my own words. You make of your experience - whatever its nature - the raw material for the story you tell. <BR/><BR/>But you know all that - you're writing your book (which is so much more to you, I know, than just *a* book). That's the right place for you to be right now, I think. Not on a plane to Athens. Get on that plane on your terms - not those of a foreign justice system's unionized employees.<BR/><BR/>Dore and I are with you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064781787782077452noreply@blogger.com