Darlin', trust me, I know whereof you speak. It's especially difficult when what you are "producing" is in the public eye. You, somehow, are not allowed to 'take a break'. I felt that all through the 80's and 90's working with AIDS and then the homeless. You just can't 'stop' to take a breath. I can remember doing 'rounds' on the fifth f…
Darlin', trust me, I know whereof you speak. It's especially difficult when what you are "producing" is in the public eye. You, somehow, are not allowed to 'take a break'. I felt that all through the 80's and 90's working with AIDS and then the homeless. You just can't 'stop' to take a breath. I can remember doing 'rounds' on the fifth floor of the University Hospital, stopping in every room to visit with guys in varying stages of dying - some were friends, some total strangers, some former lovers. Then getting on the elevator and between the fifth and fourth floors having to put myself back into myself so when the doors opened I could go on out there and be with those I had committed myself to BE with. You can do it! Besides really great, intense sex, I would put my roller skates on and whip around the lovely "handicapped accessible" campus of the University of NM campus with Chopin on my "walkman"!!! You know the things that revitalize you - do it - and come back when you're ready. We'll wait!! Well, I will - I get it - you have an audience as well. And sometimes they can't wait or won't. It's OK. It has to be OK!
Oh, Dennis, my creative slump is nothing in the face of some of what you went through during those years. Thank you for your service…and love. I’m sure you provided more comfort and support to your friends, lovers, and strangers than you’ll ever know. May that love and light continue lighting the way for you. The image of you roller-skating has given me LIFE this morning. Thank you for that gift. Cheers!
Darlin', trust me, I know whereof you speak. It's especially difficult when what you are "producing" is in the public eye. You, somehow, are not allowed to 'take a break'. I felt that all through the 80's and 90's working with AIDS and then the homeless. You just can't 'stop' to take a breath. I can remember doing 'rounds' on the fifth floor of the University Hospital, stopping in every room to visit with guys in varying stages of dying - some were friends, some total strangers, some former lovers. Then getting on the elevator and between the fifth and fourth floors having to put myself back into myself so when the doors opened I could go on out there and be with those I had committed myself to BE with. You can do it! Besides really great, intense sex, I would put my roller skates on and whip around the lovely "handicapped accessible" campus of the University of NM campus with Chopin on my "walkman"!!! You know the things that revitalize you - do it - and come back when you're ready. We'll wait!! Well, I will - I get it - you have an audience as well. And sometimes they can't wait or won't. It's OK. It has to be OK!
Oh, Dennis, my creative slump is nothing in the face of some of what you went through during those years. Thank you for your service…and love. I’m sure you provided more comfort and support to your friends, lovers, and strangers than you’ll ever know. May that love and light continue lighting the way for you. The image of you roller-skating has given me LIFE this morning. Thank you for that gift. Cheers!