#changing fortunes

Stirrups:

It’s funny how intentions get thrown overboard early in the journey

What becomes of that once precious cargo-those notions of omnipotence that seemed so virtuous,

Worthy of worship itself

When the momentous trek for awareness and ultimate freedom turn on you

And your boot gets stuck in the stirrup after your high horse has dispatched you from that lofty perch

As the world turns upside down all around you

You catch a fleeting glimpse of that discarded cargo

Gliding giddily into God’s greenest garden

With their look of abandonment morphing quickly into a serenity that you believed belonged to you

As you realize in those last lucid moments that you yourself were the useless cargo

And your awakened beneficence was nothing more than cheap cruelty delivered to all and sundry with the knowing competence of a Roman emperor

Justice can be such a burden to dispense

And a bitter bitch to receive

Such is the stuff of awakenings…

Rolloroberson©2022

(“She calls me baby, she calls everybody baby,

It’s a lonely ol’ night but ain’t they all”

- Mellencamp)

  As a nurse, Rory often saw a lot more of the patients than the doctors ever did. Enough for him to get attached quite easily. Patients in other wards came and went - here, though, they were long-term. More often than he would like, leaving was by means of dying, not walking out.

  Rory worked on the cancer ward. Not the most glamorous place, but he enjoyed it. And there was one patient in particular he always enjoyed seeing, one who always seemed to keep his chin up.

Unfortunately, due to prior arranged work commitments, Leanne Holland is now unavailable for the Player's September 2013 show 'Changing Fortunes,' so is unable to take the part of Fiona (Fee).

We have instead offered this opportunity to Libby Russell.

Following a very successful second read through for the male parts of 'Changing Fortunes' several weeks ago, we are very happy to announce that the rest of the Player's September 2013 show has now been cast.

Congratulations to the following

Sir Timothy Spence …… Angus Maule

John Carter (butler) ….. James Boultbee

Jeremy Fullers (conservative candidate) …. Duncan Porter