I second that! Wholeheartedly!

mike <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> wrote:  You can have all the slack you want buddy.

Best of British luck to you and Lynn.

May God Bless you and keep you.

Mike

On 7/11/07 4:34 PM, "Sam Conant" wrote:

> Garcia Miguel,
> Several years ago, during my six month "mid-life walk-about" with my 84
> Westy, I decided to leave the U.S. and head for Panama (first). Except for
> one scary night when I pulled several hundred yards off the road into the
> scrub, the trip was truly easy and fantastically pleasant. My scrub event
> was on my second night south of the U.S. border. Something awakened me in
> the early AM ... and, it became apparent that the noises circling my "wagon"
> were not made by scurrying animals ... Something about human voices alerted
> me, I guess.
>
> Quietly, I reached down, pulled out the 9mm pistol I had picked up just
> south of my crossing ... took off the safety, and let a stream go into the
> tops of the cacti in which I was spending the night. While I wasn't able to
> interpret the language, I was quickly aware that my "signal" has alarmed and
> suggested strongly that my Westy (with Vermont plates) might not be the best
> pirate stop on the trail. The rest of the trip south was fine, as was my
> month later trek north and across the Canadian border and on to the North
> Slope of Alaska.
>
> One result of my mid-life walk-about a few years ago has been the
> realization that more of us folks in the Western, Anglicized world ought to
> think about spending quality time, out and about, contemplating our
> respective navels checking out just who and how we want to be when we grow
> up the next time.
>
> Several years ago, and a few months after my "walk-about," I decided to
> demonstrate that a mental health professional can actually and really
> retire. So, I became a full time Disaster Mental Health volunteer with the
> American Red Cross. At the same time, I accepted a position as President of
> the board of a local cable TV station where I had been hosting and producing
> a weekly community affairs program. After several years of demonstrating
> that it is truly possible to "fail competently at retirement," I resigned
> both volunteer positions to assumed overall practice management
> responsibilities for my wife's primary care, private medical practice.
> After three years and at my recommendation, we closed the solo practice in
> April, 2006 and my wife accepted a beneficial officer from a practice owner
> in Waterville, Maine. In February 2007, my wife and I returned to live in
> Vermont from Maine where she had accepted a private practice position
> replacing two physicians who had decided to return to California. In
> November, we embarked on still one more journey when my wife underwent major
> surgery to remove a couple of GYN tumors which are never, ever found to be
> cancerous. My wife's were - and matasisis had set in. After a second
> surgery and consultation with the Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston,
> following their recommendations, my wife began a full regimen of radiation
> treatments in Maine. When that schedule was completed, we decided to
> return to our Vermont home and engage in chemo-therapy here, near our home.
> She will complete that schedule next Tuesday.
>
> S0 now, while we have had the radiation and chemo schedule to confirm that
> Lynn and been doing everything possible to deal with her diagnosis ... Next
> week marks the end of knowing that she is doing whatever is possible to
> fight her sarcoma. So; from next Tuesday on ... until her as yet
> unscheduled follow up CT-Scan is completed (probably in late August) Lynn
> will have to sit back and wait for the results that CT-Scan .. to know just
> how much hope we can allow ourselves to have and hold on to.
>
> So, those of you who pray and those of you who share concerns and thoughts
> for Lynn, please keep those prayers and thoughts happening. We appreciate
> and need them.
>
> Finally, I recognize that I have mixed subjects up with this one .... Please
> cut me some slack .... This time?
>
> Sam Conant
> Colchester, Vermont
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miguel Pacheco"
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:18 AM
> Subject: Re: What i see through my lens....
>
>
>> Benny Boy, actually, the more you look like Che, the better off you are
>> in 'mi querido Mexico.' A buzz cut is classic gringo. Entering with long
>> hair and a Kombi (they call them all Kombi down there)is to your benefit.A
>> Che sticker on your Vanagon is a great idea too! Now, re-entering the USA
>> will be the exact opposite of course. So wait until your return trip to
>> buzz your hair, shave off all those stinkin liberal bumper stickers from
>> your vehicle and paste a big ol NRA sticker on your rear glass.
>> Buena Suerte!! Miguel