which is one reason I have stayed active here for more than 12 years.
The week about to commence, or we could say, that commenced yesterday, is something that would therefore normally consume my waking hours.
It will not, and I may well miss a key night of the convention, conceivably even the speech on Thursday by our nominee.
Let me explain.
Right now my attention to politics is diminished by how much my wife is struggling with the current round of chemo. Everything else has therefore had to take a back seat to helping here. That includes what I watch on TV. That includes even some of the efforts I have been making in seeking employment (although I actually do have an interview for a part-time teaching job tomorrow). It meant that I did not go to my own service today, but instead made sure to get her to hers, then to stay around for an unexpected choir rehearsal (about which more anon), then to wait until her Priest was free from a meeting so that she could make her confession, then to do some shopping for her.
But she is coming into a week where she is on break from chemo, so things should not be so demanding.
But they probably will be.
When she first came home from being hospitalized in 2013, and was finally able to receive visitors, among the first group were a couple, the wife of which was living with breast cancer. She is now dying, and it may only be a matter of day.
The choir rehearsal today was to practice the hymns she would like to have for her funeral.
Whenever that funeral is, our attending is guaranteed, unless my wife were to be too sick to leave the house. If it interferes with the politics, I have no trouble. For me at least the primary purpose of politics is to make things better for as many persons as possible.
Being with a friend to honor the passing of a spouse is as important as anything else we could do.
Knowing that we do not know when others may be asked to respond similarly for us — we do not know the outcome of my wife’s cancer longterm and I am now in my 8th decade regularly being informed of people I grew up with or attended college with who have passed.
I am a political junkie.
I try to be a caring person.
The latter takes precedence.
Peace.