O Happy Day!
This is where my sister got married last month. I loved being her photographer!
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ReplyDeleteWatch today's total solar eclipse online!
Coverage begins at 2:30pm eastern; totality happens 3:39-3:41pm eastern.
http://events.slooh.com/
Gosh, my Firsties has a terrible typo! Dean! Dean! Dean! was my intent!
DeleteThere was another earthquake in Myanmar (Burma) today! This was "only" 4.8 and this time it was south of the new capitol. So something like 300 miles west of where Howard Dean is protesting human trafficking.
I'll sure feel better once he's out of there.
Did anyone else watch the total solar eclipse online today? I got to see it while working at the Library. It was amazing to see the Sun's corona in real time!
DeleteBTW, they went in to Myanmar through Thailand. It's the same basic region where Dean's brother Charlie was taken prisoner and killed.
DeleteCool today, but no rain or snow, yesterday or today. Line's been crappy. All my energy goes to getting/staying online long enough for a page to load.
ReplyDeleteWe know you're with us in spirit, even as we miss you in posts!
DeleteI still remember the day my Dad sent out a group email to all us kids. It read:"It took me five hours to get online! Nothing to report."
This evening at the Library we had a Visiting Nurses Association nurse come and do a presentation about Hospice care and end-of-life issues.
ReplyDeleteQuite good and I came away with the necessary paperwork to write up our own intentions.
I have chosen not to do a Living Will or equivalent because I trust Penny to make the right decision in the circumstances more than I trust myself to make the right decision for circumstances not yet known.
DeleteBill...I understand what you mean, but what if you both die an untimely death together?
DeleteIf we both die, there's no problem, is there? But of course you mean what if there's some sort of accident where Penny dies and I am rendered unable to make decisions for myself. That's a theoretical possibility, but pretty unlikely I think. And considering the odds and possibilities, it seems a lesser risk than me getting it wrong.
DeleteBill, it all depends, I guess. And there's the rub. I saw some difficult situations when I was a chaplain intern at the medical center. The hardest thing is when one or both parents are incapacitated and the kids are disagreeing about what mom and/or dad would want. Some kids disagreed with the healthy parent about what their ill parent would want, and sometimes it was the ill person's siblings who made trouble. The best thing we did, as chaplains, in such a situation, was to find some means of communication with the patient. If we got a thumbs up regarding a decision on three consecutive visits, we could advocate for the person's will.
DeleteAs for me, as much as I love my kids, I don't want them to make those decisions for me. I know they won't all feel or think the same way as one another and certainly not the same as me on everything. I don't want them to have a rift over it, and I don't want to put that kind of responsibility on them anyway. In my view, leaving a living will strengthens my spouse's hand against anyone who says he's not making the decision I would have wanted. It protects him as much as it protects me.
Hi!
ReplyDelete--Alan, just passing by...
Hi back atcha.
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