A HERETIC I AM needs some DU vibes, prayers, and love today.

[A HERETIC I AM]

164. Thanks.

I've been up now since about noon yesterday, so I'm knackered but one final check of GD found this response waiting and I had to reply.

Yes and double yes on the actuarial tables, but I told several people today, the Neurologists Nurse Practitioner among them, that if we had been standing in my mothers living room on Saturday and you had asked me how much longer I thought she would live, I would have bet a weeks salary on at least 5 more years if not ten.

Your words mean a lot, Chris. Really.

I've had the following thought for many years and this gives me comfort;

Consider a still, mill pond.
A mill pond with no shoreline
A pond stretching to infinity.

Toss a pebble into the center
Ripples are formed in a perfect circle
spreading outward, ever outward.
Science and Newtons laws say
that the waves will never cease to be,
just slowly diminish in strength.
But they go on forever.

We are all that pebble
And the pond is the universe which gave birth to us.
We return to it and become part of it again.

My mothers ripples have just begun their everlasting outward spread
and her essence affects the entire pond
just as we all do


I'm content to be a pebble.