GOOD PEOPLE DO EXIST. We need more.

Carolyn and Linda

When?  Where?

 

This little entry has nothing to do with ovarian cancer, but it has a lot to say about how we should lead our lives.  What I am bringing to you is an Op Ed from today’s Wall Street Journal.  The author is an M.D. practicing general medicine in Bozeman, Montana, a high and desolate mountain village chiefly famous for the fact that my youngest granddaughter is a college student there.  I urge you to read it and then think for a few minutes.  I did just that, and came away taxing myself for not being a better person.  To signal a change in my character I hereby vow not to gloat if the Seattle Seahawks cream Green Bay tomorrow.  And maybe I’ll work on a few other things, too.

I don’t know why this little piece affected me so much.  Maybe it is because my desk is surrounded by pictures of Linda.  This is the way she lived.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bob-flaherty-diagnosing-the-many-routes-to-homelessness-1421452324