Comments on: https://webbish6.com/2178/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Cipolline https://webbish6.com/2178/#comment-758 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:10:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2178/#comment-758 Neither am I surprised. As the story unfolds, we learn he was in creative writing classes with Lucinda Roy and he was advised to get treatment. Having taught just a few independent workshops (not university affiliated), my own experience has been that in every class, there is usually one student who seems to need more therapy than the creative process alone can provide. I mean that in all seriousness. Creativity attracts troubled people for good and healthy reasons, but it doesn’t take care of those darker issues. I’m glad to hear the student was at least advised to seek help, but I fear for teachers and their inability to do more than that.

Today I found out my colleague Katherine Soniat was not on the list. She’s a professor in English at VTech. Now I can sleep a little better, but no doubt she’s got a terrible load of pain, anxiety and sorrow on her shoulders, and I’m praying for her.

Tamara
http://www.tamarasellman.blogspot.com

]]> By: Peter https://webbish6.com/2178/#comment-757 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:09:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2178/#comment-757 “It takes more courage to love than to kill. More strength to have compassion than hate.”
Beautiful.
PP

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