ViewFromTheHeart : That Lonesome Road

ViewFromTheHeart Reviewed
Somehow I found VFTH firmly in the crosshairs of a couple of ''Weblog Critics'' with the unlikely names of Ed Champion and Tom Working, who have a website called Blog You.

I am not going to link to Blog You because I disagree vehemently with their assessment of ViewFromTheHeart. It's one of the few weblogs that I try and read every day. More often than not after my daily 'dose' of that site I am left in awe of caring professionals like Al Hawkins, the weblog's author. Al started weblogging about the same tiime as I started. ViewFromTheHeart is a perfect title for the site. Weblogs like it are not things you can just dip into and judge at face value. Regular readers are drawn into Al's life and work and certainly in my case become bound to the real-life drama that is Al's life. It's his experiences as a critical care nurse - and the truly honest way that he writes about them and his reactions, etc., that makes VFTH compulsive reading. Sure, it'll not be to everyone's taste but I for one am delighted that Al takes the time and effort to write about his thoughts and deeds. I am not ashamed to say that sometimes his weblog entries reduce me to tears and at other times I have been known to ROTFL and/or curse at the antics of the patients, family, nursing staff or the hospital management. Al does us all a service by making us confront our preconceptions about the sick and dying and those that care for them and the situtation they find themselves in.

Al, don't take the criticism to heart. Please keep on weblogging. The world's a better place because of you. I don't think I could say the same thing about these so-called critics.

Best wishes,

Duncan

PS Later: Al's reply seems to suggest that he's bearing up ;-). Nice one, Al!