No, I know exactly what you mean. I remember reading a Miss Manners advice column years ago wherein she talked about offering help to the grieving in a very specific way: not is there anything I can do to help? but May I feed the dog for you? What would you like for dinner? Because people in crisis are, like you, tentative about encroaching, and sometimes are unable to organize their thoughts enough to make specific requests anyway. And even though she was talking about a quite different situation, people in crisis are people in crisis.
Anyway, it's valuable advice, and I shall think carefully about what, exactly, I feel comfortable offering up. Maybe house the parrot until Miss B. gets settled? Tape up the boxes for her?
I'm wishing you lots of luck (and time!) in your own housing crisis. If I were anywhere near, I would totally go hunting for you -- I love house/apartment hunting, and if I could do you a favor by going on a hunt: win-win!
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Date: 2007-09-04 04:01 am (UTC)Anyway, it's valuable advice, and I shall think carefully about what, exactly, I feel comfortable offering up. Maybe house the parrot until Miss B. gets settled? Tape up the boxes for her?
I'm wishing you lots of luck (and time!) in your own housing crisis. If I were anywhere near, I would totally go hunting for you -- I love house/apartment hunting, and if I could do you a favor by going on a hunt: win-win!