Thank you everyone for your generously kind comments regarding my story yesterday. I debated for two months whether or not I should share it, and I'm still not 100 percent certain I should have. I only wish I had incorporated the words, "without lingering aftereffects." But, really, the phrase never entered my mind.
Mr. Giella decided to draw the second panel from the perspective of Dr. Kapuht, passed out on the hospital floor. The Taylors are about to dance all over him. At first I thought the black line running down Evy's midsection (torso?!) was a cord from earbuds, but I guess that's just her sweater. Evy and Ed hear their own kind of music. Olive is surrounded by the aura that comes from being the chosen one of Mary Worth.
ReplyDeleteLingering Aftereffects would be a good name for a rock band
ReplyDeleteWho talks like this? Is Mary practicing before her interview for the position of Police Department Spokesperson?
ReplyDeleteLadies and gentlemen, the Lingering Aftereffects, featuring Ed Taylor on air guitar.
ReplyDeleteSo, what have we learned?
ReplyDeleteWhen you review past interactions, it's important to be sensitive to the lingering aftereffects. Close friendships indicate connections and the appreciation of inside-and-out beauty fosters close friendships. The peculiar likes and dislikes of sensitive children should not be discounted and should actually be looked upon as gifts of intuition, even if fathers know best and the informed medical consensus has been pronounced easy-peasy.
Also, the key to walking (or gambolling, skipping, galloping, etc.) is to avoid objects in your path while putting one foot in front of the other and to keep on going on.
Also, believe in yourself, no matter who else does. Seek out the companionship of people who make you feel all right with yourself.
There were some other lessons, but these are probably enough for now.
It was a minor procedure a month ago, but after putting it off for so long, the cyst had grown to baseball proportions.
ReplyDeleteThanks,Toby, for making clear WHICH Olive it is we are discussing here.
ReplyDeleteTo belabor a point, I believe Mary should have said "lingering SIDE effects." An after effect is already lingering.
Aftereffects are better when they don't linger.
ReplyDeleteYou know? It's really sad that situations that speak of a very challenging and poignant nature in our existence become trivialized and offensive in Moy's clumsy hands.
ReplyDeleteSo heartwarming... where once there was a fractured family led by 2 self-centered parents and a delusional and hallucinating child, now the Taylor family is a happy and cohesive unit of 2 self-centered parents who figured out they have a daughter to care for who, by the way, is still delusional and hallucinating, thanks our heroine, Mary the Magnificent. Onward to the torso cyst removal!
ReplyDeleteToots, your recap was made all the more impressive by the fact that it was not done poolside, while jogging, or at a Charterstone gathering with snacks and pinkcake, accompanied by Toby.
ReplyDeleteWell done, and I learned a lot.