Sometimes you just have to get... MAD!!

This past weekend a tragic accident occurred in Seattle that really upset me.  The more I think upon it, the more angry I get.  The accident claimed the lives of two innocent young adults, and was entirely caused by the unbelievably reckless driving of an apparently sober individual.  Turns out there is even more to the initial story that is confounding...

I doubt this link will last long, but you can read about it here - with my thoughts to follow.

 

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A time to laugh - Act 2

I ended up with enough entries in my first write, so decided to split them into two sections of more readable snippets.  Enjoy (or at least you will see, as many have noted before, I do have a warped sense of humor)....

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A time to laugh - Act 1

In this section, hopefully you may find a few good laughs from my experiences.  As said in Proverbs - a good word brings health to the bones.  Beyond even a good word, laughter just deeply feels so right. Continue Reading...

Quotations

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”     Isaac Asimov

Shaking your head?  Here are my honest unvarnished impressions.  Although I nearly suffered a traumatic death, which in the ER we all have imagined as a horrible way to die, I can say from experience when you don't see it coming, and it strikes in an instant as John Donne remarked - it may not be all that bad a way to pass from this world.  Yet as a survivor of a sudden change, an alteration to worse, I have found it is the transition that is indeed most troublesome.  In my case, thankfully, it was a transition back to finding life, a life that is again (mostly) pleasant!

To follow this are quotes from all sources, on a variety of topics, presented hereafter without any additional comments...

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