I recently received an e-mail from a writer acquaintance who was in the hospital recovering from a stroke. After relaying the news, he assured me that he was going to write about it.
I found this comforting. In our post-literate, visually-addicted age, there are not many reasons for writers to be thankful, but here was one: You can take the worst that life throws at you and turn it into art (or at least prose).
A happy thought during hurricane season.