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Oasis Part 5
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Lunch with Dana was enjoyable, she is quite witty and cheeky when she lets herself be. There is something amazing that happens to Dana when you communicate with her one on one, where she isn’t being watched by other people. She comes to life.
Her hands move, a lot. She could tell complete stories with her hands. I am not sure she would appreciate the comparison, but she reminds me of a child. Or a chimp. It really depends on the day, and the cheekiness of her smile.
After lunch I had her drop me off at home, my cough was coming back with a vengeance and I was once again light-headed. I was not suicidal, or homicidal, so I had no intention of getting on my bike. Dana happily dropped me off, with a promise that tomorrow I would go and see a doctor.
Promise made, I invited her over to get ready for the shindig together. I hated getting dressed up, so sometimes it helped to have someone around who would motivate me into doing so. There was a time when I used to wear suits nearly everyday, when I wanted to make my father happy and enough money to afford this beautiful home, my darkroom.
I was never happier then I was the day I quit the board and went back to my love, people and photography. Beauty in all forms and kinds, that didn’t relate to the money, numbers and ‘appearances’. Now when I return to a university, it is not as the Dean of the photography departments, it’s as a guest lecturer, a tutor.
That is the one thing I missed when I was a Dean was the fact that I was forever caught up in the business of teaching, not the art of teaching. I enjoy watching the students as they discover that changing the shutter speed on their camera can create images that are unexpected. That the rule of 9′s is one that can be broken.
That photography is not a something that comes with hard and fast rules, it comes with suggested techniques and depending on what exactly you are creating, what story you want to tell, you will have access to those techniques.
Teaching, or lecturing also allows me to bang the drum on my impressions of digital photography. While I believe that digital has its place, I fear that our cultures need for instant gratification, for instant creation has started to kill the art; has made the story obsolete. It’s all about film baby, and I try and make sure I school on those choices.
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Dearest Deean: We are so sorry to learn that you had an accident on your elbow. Hope it heals nicely, that it doesn’t bother you that much and that you might recover soon. Please take very good care of yourself.- As for the story, we are beginning to enjoy Dana, Alice and are much concerned about Bette’s health. Hmmm You are making some interesting developments on the story, which are very appealing, plot wise. We are savouring all of them. PPS Hugs & kisses on both your cheeks. – Lucero & Marsha (Proud Salsa Aunties to the ever loving JC and Eunichick)
Dana was always shown to be a good friend and here she proves it by taking Bette to the docs.Nice updat i want more
Hope Bette doesn’t have some weird, tropical, 3rd world disease.
Sounds like Bette is pretty sick but she’s been sick like this before, right? Both of your stories are fantastic and I look forward to new chapters on both.
I am sorry too about the bed and your elbow. I hope it feels better soon. As for this one, what is the mysterious ailment? Bette doesn’t have HIV does she? Eunichick already played this card, and between the both of you, what with Dying of the Light as well, y’all seem pretty anxious for Bette to shuffle off this mortal coil! How about Tina getting a fatal disease for once, just to even it out? I am not sure about this Dana. She is sweet, but there is shy and then there is… Did something happen to her to make her this way?? Ah, another story! Speaking of which, you are going to let us hang and hang and hang, to know whether Bette is alive and ok? Hopefully not TOO long!
Somewhere in fanfic heaven, Bette is wondering just what she did to piss off Dee. (just kidding)I’m looking forward to the doctor’s appt and some clarification about Bette’s earlier illness vs her current one. My chest hurts just listening to Bette laugh with her friends.Love Alice’s ‘House’- what a great idea, absolutely one that could be duplicated all over. I found the comment about the kids being ‘too old to adopt’ odd- as i adopted my five year old foster son when he was seven- but we both know there a lot more foster kids than adoptive homes and plenty of need for a house like the one you conjured. Hope you are well soon! (selfishly i want more updates to both tales!)p.s. where in Dying of the Light did you add that paragraph you found that you didn’t include previously? thanks. Feel better!
er…that is to say…i adopted my son at seven, but he was 5 when he first came to live with me as my foster son.
My Beautiful Dee… ahhhhh that sucks about the bed but more so your elbow… I am off to the movies but will be back… you completely rock it out… take good care and talk to you later… mwah… love and hugs, JC
Thank you for this wonderful story and I hope you feel better. Please post soon.
Thanks for posting this is a wonderful story with so much attention given to the ability of this family of friends to give love and share their lives wiith the children that have been written off for whatever reason. Such a great lesson in love and humanitarianism. If every community in our great nation would take on a project like this we could go a long way to eradicate homeliness amog foster children. Sincerely hope that Bette does not have some disease about which nothing can be done. Wonderful story. Since Tina has not shown up in this story yet, will she be one of the doctor’s that Bette sees. If so, hopefylly she will have the cure-all for Bette. PPS