http://www.winkie.org/2005/06/16/good-thinking/ Searching for one brief hour of Madness & Joy Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:50:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.winkie.org/2005/06/16/good-thinking/#comment-703 Jimbodacious Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:28:47 +0000 http://www.winkie.org/?p=239#comment-703 Excellent speech. I'm lucky because my wife works as a Hospice nurse and that "frame of existence" is one we share daily. And the way we look at life is, if you were lucky enough to have someone tell you with certainty that you only had a month to live, what would you spend your now highly valuable time doing? Well, you don't know how long you're going to live. You may not make it to the end of this week. So why not live your life as if you only had a week to live... because that may indeed be all you have.... Excellent speech. I’m lucky because my wife works as a Hospice nurse and that “frame of existence” is one we share daily. And the way we look at life is, if you were lucky enough to have someone tell you with certainty that you only had a month to live, what would you spend your now highly valuable time doing? Well, you don’t know how long you’re going to live. You may not make it to the end of this week. So why not live your life as if you only had a week to live… because that may indeed be all you have….

]]> http://www.winkie.org/2005/06/16/good-thinking/#comment-702 25Mikes Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:25:03 +0000 http://www.winkie.org/?p=239#comment-702 This is why some of us want to work with people who are dying. For the first time in their lives, they see through the bullshit. This is why some of us want to work with people who are dying. For the first time in their lives, they see through the bullshit.

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