Strategy and tactics

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat ...

Strategy: know everyone can't be pleased, so find my own direction
(be myself, everyone else is already taken).
Tactic: look after people in their important moments.
Tactic: take frighteningly bold steps some of the time.
Tactic: listen out for ideas from everywhere.
ah, well ...

Gerald will be re-assessed on Monday for possible home-time.
He has not had stability with his bowel yet; every day different, ranging from relatively still and a little sudoku and chat, to - worst day - mostly comatose.

We three are wrung out, strung out, sometimes grieved out, and glad there is some sleep each night.
Our times will come again.

L

PS Lionel Shriver's latest, "So Much for That", which came through from the library 3 weeks ago, has been my read-a-page book since then.
For those who don't know, it is the stunningly straightforward and exquisitely recognisable account of a situation similar to ours (a novel).
Reading it right now is the intellectual and emotional equivalent of picking at an open wound - fascinating, irresistible, and mildly stupid as activities go.