I usually comment in the abstract - talking about ideas. One of my pet areas is health and how we need to look at the health system in a new way. Basically my point is that we as individuals and we as the makers of our community create many of the conditions for poor health.
Tomorrow I go to the airport to pick up our daughter Hope who has been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Only 9 months ago my wife Robin was diagnosed with breast cancer. Cancer seems to shoot many of my theories down - in that I cannot find the social cause for it and I have learned over the last year that searching for causes is a fruitless pastime.
What I have learned is that life is so precious and fragile really and that I have spent most of my life taking life for granted - especially the lives of those that I love the most. I am learning that Cancer is the great teacher of the value of life and how not to waste as much of it as I did.
Sorry about the rant but I feel close to bursting right now
7:24:45 AM 
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