2013-Feb-08-0626Hrs
Dear Errol:
Conrad is missing the point about a Mausica blog, and is wrong about whether it was the proper place to raise a concern about Fitzy's living circumstances. The blog is a meeting place where matters of concern to Mausicans are reported. Sometimes the news is good, like when someone has some accomplishment, and sometimes it is not, like when we have to report illness, or even the deaths of our former colleagues or of their loved ones. The blog is the equivalent of a "family meeting" which Fitzy used to run when I was there. Family meetings can uncover matters to which we must attend. I don't see how it is we could take his photograph, but not raise the alarm that his living circumstances are not good and that we should collectively try to do something about it. This is a matter for the collective. If Fitzy is in need, we should get to work not just take his picture. One model of how he can be helped is the one that Gwen Williams quietly went about for a while. Then there was the one reported recently where several people organized a Grell Cup style clean up there. We could organize a fund that would upgrade his immediate circumstances, and use some of it to pay for someone to clean up there periodically.
Lord Scratchie
Theodore Lewis
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