Madoff/Greed

Is it apparent to anyone but me that the people who invested with Madoff were wealthy to begin with and their greed for even more got them into this deep water. I'm not in any way excusing his swindle, but isn't $3,000,000 enough for you to live? Must you make it become more? Why? GREED GREED GREED. Greed has broken our general economy and greed broke these people. Oops. 

Quote for the Day

"A positive attitude may not solve all of your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

--Herb Albright (1876-1944)

Quote for the Day

"As anyone who has tried to quite smoking knows, dependence is hardest to overcome during difficult or stressful times. That must be why, when the government helps drug abusers quit, they arrest them and take away their job, possessions and children."

--Pete Guither--

Facebook

I can't figure out why people want to connect with dozens of people they barely know when they barely connect with people they already know. I may have stumbled upon a major flaw in modern society. This super highway all access everybody is everybody's friend has become a substitute for deep friendships developed over years requiring real shared experiences.

By internet standards, I may be considered anti-social. But in my experience being alone is preferable to crowds of babble.

I dabbled in Facebook for the voyeurist aspect of it. I liked to glance at you and him and her but don't particularly want anyone glancing at me.

I don't know. Gonna go surfing now. I'll let you know if I find anything relevant to my existence today. I'm sure I will but not on Facebook.

I'm Back

Well friends, sorry I've been away so long. I've been focusing my concentration on my sweet friend Michelle. She faced the devil and he backed off! 

Having survived a horrendous surgery, Michelle is home and recovering well.  She still has a hard row to hoe. Michelle is going to have to endure radiation AND chemo-therapy. Those are the big obvious things. There are niggling everyday things involved with the recovery from cancer that the rest of us barely consider. Michelle lost her nose; the surgery required to save her life, removed the middle of her face! Think about that!!!

It is so difficult for me to write about it. Imagine how difficult it is to have it happening to you.

To be continued...

Sweet Michelle vs Evil Cancer

Well folks, the second surgery went well and they are confidant that they got all of the cancer out. So this is GOOD NEWS. Michelle is finally out from under the knife and that f------ disease has been cut out. She phoned me this evening from the ICU and it was an unmitigated joy to hear her voice, I must say. (To borrow from Ed Grimley). Her spirits are just what you would imagine. She is quite the trooper. (I want her on my side forever.)

Thank you everyone for your prayers and thoughts and...well...vibes.

Now comes the follow up..she should be home in 5 days. She finally gets to be back in her own bed with her little doggie Kukla for company. Then comes six weeks of healing before the radiation begins.

I will pass along your greetings.

Evil Cancer

My excellent friend Michelle was diagnosed with cancer last month. She was told that she had 6 months to live or submit to a possibly radical facial surgery. Being the courageous trooper that she is, she of course opted for the surgery. "I want to BE here!" she said to me.

Yesterday our Mizshely underwent a horrendous surgery that removed her nose, her maxillary and ethmoid sinuses, part of her upper lip and a minute part of her hard palate. Unbelievably awful. While they were operating they discovered more cancer just at the edge of her skull, behind her eyebrows.

Now there is more to come as they will have to also take skin and blood vessels from another part of her body to aid in reconstruction of this brow area. The reconstuction of the entire middle of her face is a whole other ball game.

If there is actually anyone out there in cyberspace who reads my blog, PLEASE think of Michelle now and then and send her all your best thoughts. I believe that energy sent en masse actually can affect outcomes. If you call it prayer, then pray just once today for all you're worth, for my Michelle. She has spent her lifetime doing for others. Now it's our turn to do for her. Peace and Thank You a thousand times.