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I had a call last night from a dear friend. He and his wife just learned that she has advanced lung cancer. They haven't yet heard of the treatment plan or the prognosis, but it sounds grave. This woman is much too young and too alive to be ready to die. The call was a reality wake up for us. Libby and I are living such an idealistic life, bouncing from one nice experience to the next with hardly a care, that we tend to forget how harsh life can be to people less lucky than we are. Our hearts go out to our friend and we wish his wife all the best.
Today was much nicer than yesterday and we zipped down to Marblehead with little trouble.
I got passed by a fishing boat that was trawling. Behind the boat was a flock of perhaps 1,000 sea gulls. I'm not sure how the boat raised food for the birds, but they were feeding somehow. The gulls landed in the wake of the boat, then sat feeding on something. Then, when the boat was nearly a mile ahead, they took off and flew to catch up to the boat and land once again. Their was a continuous line of gulls, not quite single file, stretching at least a mile behind the boat. The line of gulls followed the path of the boat's wake perfectly. Quite a site.
I also saw a helicopter making repeated trips to the so-called Dry Salvage Islands about two miles off Cape Ann. It was obviously delivering some cargo to the island. My guess is that the cargo was wet concrete. The chopper dragged a bucket, and it paused less than 30 seconds at each end of the trip. It was very efficient, taking only 3 minutes and 10 seconds for each round trip. At 19 trips per hour, the cost of delivering a bucket of concrete to the island could be reasonable even with the high operating cost of a chopper.
I recently published some political comments about Sarah Palin on this blog, and I got a few feedback comments which I just published. I regret posting my comments on this blog. Sure I have political opinions and passions just like everyone else, but this blog is not the appropriate place to vent them.
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You shouldn't worry too much about the political comments. It's good to have "friendly" discussions/debates. Other countries seem to be so much better at this than us. Sorry if the comments were upsetting. I too am very passionate about my politics. We both want the best for our country, and that's a good thing to have in common.
ReplyDeleteHope to see you out there some day. We can talk politics! :)
Cheers,
Paul
Sodus Bay NY