…that last week’s “phone call every parent dreads”\u00a0 ended well, with our autistic son alive, unhurt,\u00a0 and not detained by police.\u00a0 That’s very good news, and I have nothing but praise for the police & EMS handling of the situation–and this in a police force I have criticized before.\u00a0\u00a0 It helps, of course, that our son is white, good-looking, and that all the long hours of coaching and practice on polite behavior meant he was polite and friendly to the police officers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All of those contributed to the way the police handled the situation.\u00a0 However, the situation and its aftermath pretty much ate our days from last Thursday at 6 pm when we got the first call through Monday’s last contact with the crisis management team.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Yes, I had a birthday on Friday, and a small party on Saturday, and these familiar rituals helped our son unwind from the very scary experiences of Thursday.\u00a0 They were more stressful than usual for the rest\u00a0 of us, because we were all concerned about our son…the guests included his godparents and long-time family friends.<\/p>\n
So.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s why, though I’ve replied to a few comments, there’s been no new post since the business-oriented one March 7, right after a phone conference with someone at my agent’s office, when my brain could briefly center on something that might interest you and that I could write about.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am edgy today, because (for most humans)\u00a0 irrational associations make us edgy one week, one month, one year after something happens…as if time were, as a calendar suggests, a series of repetitive cycles.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When our son makes the same trip from a mall to his apartment today and nothing happens…I’ll start overwriting last week’s Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Farin Cook story is ALMOST finished.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve finally read through Richard’s suggestions for blog material that might be included in the story collections as background, and will be looking those up and making selections once Farin and Efla and the kitchen bunch are out of my head (well, mostly out of my head.)\u00a0\u00a0 My web designer has found the design files I commissioned from a local artist years back, so we’re starting work on cover designs (or she is.\u00a0 I’m still working on the story.)\u00a0 Yesterday, I committed retail therapy and came home with some new plates to replace cracked and missing and aged-flaking ones, which meant driving almost the same route as last Thursday, when we drove down to pick up our son and bring him home…thus overlaying that scary drive with a pleasant memory.\u00a0\u00a0 And now I’m off to get Farin’s hands out of the bread dough and end this story which–despite being conceived as a short story–is moving toward novella.<\/p>\n
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