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<\/p>\nFirst, Allison and the rest of us have been very grateful for the love and the support for Vernon. One day, we trust, he will also become aware of it. For the moment, however, all seems the same. It’s not that there isn’t healing going on, and non-stop monitoring, and more operations . . . even this week, but from the outside, it’s a long waiting.<\/p>\n
He remains in coma.<\/p>\n
Allison spends many hours in the hospital. Being near. Visiting with friends who come to comfort. Getting any information available. But there’s little. The waking out of the coma, when it comes, will be slow. The hospital stay will continue. The work of rehab will be hard, and will go on for a long time. Of course, we’re praying for a one-hundred percent recovery, body and mind.<\/p>\n
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Vernon came into our lives about a decade ago. Allison and he had mutual friends on the Internet. That’s how they first met. She was in California, he was in England.<\/p>\n
The first time they saw each other was a brief (actually running) stop in a London airport as Allison was passing through. Two years later, after a number of trips back and forth, they were married. It was my great honor to perform the wedding.<\/p>\n
Allison moved to England. It had been Allison’s encouragement to him to return to school and get his master’s degree in type design . . . a deep interest of his for a long time. The highly-respected University of Reading had such a program. After a few years, Maki, Vernon’s young son from a previous marriage, came to live with them full time.<\/p>\n
Four years ago little Justine came into their lives, and ours. A year and a half ago they fulfilled a long held\u00a0plan and moved to America.<\/p>\n
We’re grateful. Of Anne’s and my five children and 16 grandchildren, this is the only family that lives anywhere near us. Allison pursues her photography, sometimes her painting, cares for her family and keeps up with her many friends. Vernon pursues his freelance business in font design, primarily for Google, but also others. Recently he’s formed a partnership with a friend providing stamps for the scrapbook business.<\/p>\n
(BTW, the fonts used in this blog are Vernon’s design\u2014as are many others now on the web.)<\/p>\n
Vernon is one smart guy, able to figure most things out, often helping me with my own computer-related qualms, and sometimes in woodworking as well. Even the Vespa was just a recent hobby. He’d bought an old one and spent evenings and odd hours mastering its mechanics to get it running. Actually riding it wasn’t the main point.<\/p>\n
But of course all this abruptly stopped last Friday evening at 8:30. How it will all start again is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, updates and a chance for interaction will be offered on a new website dedicated to such. Also, for any who want to help financially, there is an option for that as well. As you can imagine, there will be needs . . . particularly with Vernon not able to work his craft\u00a0for some time. Click\u00a0here\u00a0for the site<\/strong><\/a>. (BTW, all the fonts on that site are Vernon’s too.)<\/p>\n Again, thank you for your abundant and heart-felt concern.<\/p>\n _______<\/p>\n Next: a reminder for our long-planned show this weekend . . . something Vernon, also an artist, would endorse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s an update on the ongoing trauma, a bit of background on Vernon himself, and a link to a new site to keep abreast, and even help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions\/9407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}