Reprise 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):
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