Happy holidays.  Scott's memorial/Irish wake will take place on Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. at Scott & Gail's house at 8305 Los Ranchos, Austin, TX 78749.  RSVP by e-mail or phone is requested, but not required.  In lieu of flowers, please donate to your favorite charity.

All the best,

Gail

e-mail: scottgriffiths1@sbcglobal.net
phone: 512-415-7251

Scott Griffiths passed away this morning surrounded by the love and passion of his life, his wife Gail Johnson. Scott was full of life, love and stories to the very end. Cancer took him, but Scott refused to let it get the best of him.

Scott left a family that learned a lot from him. Scott taught his daughter Meg to live life to the fullest and to ( Read more... )

Charla is writing this for me today ( Read more... )

yesterday we had a get together at the house to visit with neighborhood friends, friends from gail's work, 10,000 villagers folds and our families and their families and friends. Karen, Gail and Charla spent great effort and talent putting it together and we had a great time. Nora showed up and haad drawn me a wonderful picture about our piano ( Read more... )

Well, turns out all the new stuff they set me up with dooesn't work, so I will continure my time in the bedroom throne. This was more than devestating... and yet certainly fits the pattern of adjustment to failure to get anything positve done I have been learning ( Read more... )

Today we got a sling set up and I can now be lifted out of bed, put in a wheel chair and get around the house and outside. I am exctatic with this nwe found freedom!

This will be the new TexasTriangles creation circle. To join you must open a free LJ account and request to be and be accepted as a friend to this circle. For that you must also agree that what is written here is confidential and will not be publshed elsewhere except by Scott or his heirs in the form of the novel in creation here, Texas ( Read more... )

I wrote this novel, (Texas Triangles) while I was still working nights at CPS.  I was also substitute teaching at Bryan Adams High fairly regularly and did the writing through a group that met every other tuesday at the Farmers Branch Library Branch.  Incidently that is where I met Traveler Trisha, later her husband Jean Francois and Raf and ( Read more... )

Medium ind of dayl  Pretty outsidek toasty insidel  sort of a straightening out day for drugs and bowels.  Charla is here and Gail is working and my wonderful certified nursing attendant Sophhie makes me feel well attendedl  I couldnt't have bee luckier in finding a sweet young woman to help me through this tim...  five actualllly, Sophie, Gail, ( Read more... )

I have been dreading the Thanksgiving/birthday visits, but it all went pretty well.  Been having a lot of bowel and pain issues lately but got it mostly under control for the visits with the help of drugs and soothing comfort from care givers.   The visits went well , though a bit foggy from my perspective.   Good to catch up with everyone (kids, ( Read more... )