Reprise

December 15, 2004 

 

A week ago, my beautiful sister Judith learned that she had leukemia. Yesterday afternoon she died peacefully.

 

Let me see. That's a wife, a nephew and now a sister that I've lost in the last 20 months. Clearly someone up there thinks that I still haven't got the message! They're probably right - I'm hot on theory but not so flash on practice.

 

But what is the message? I think it's to do with themes I've so often returned to in these ezines: found your life on what really matters, and relish the present moment.

 

I don't feel like writing a lot today, so I'm simply going to quote a couple of favorite writers. First, Charles Handy (in Waiting for the Mountain to Move: Reflections on Work and Life): 

Yet there I was, at fifty-two, still wondering what I was going to be when I grew up. It’s a nice thought that old age is a