http://www.panix.com/~mara/diary/?p=455 in health and in sickness Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.panix.com/~mara/diary/?p=455#comment-130 Kathryn B Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:57:23 +0000 http://www.panix.com/~mara/diary/?p=455#comment-130 I'm sorry Mara. And glad you're heading back to Florida so soon I’m sorry Mara. And glad you’re heading back to Florida so soon

]]> http://www.panix.com/~mara/diary/?p=455#comment-129 Michael Weholt Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:46:22 +0000 http://www.panix.com/~mara/diary/?p=455#comment-129 It's a long-term struggle, Mara, as you well know. That's why it's so important to focus life down to the daily, short-term pleasures... also as you well know. We are used to a particularly opened-ended scale when we are well and feeling indestructible. When we are sick and feeling less indestructible, the scale naturally changes. You will wake up in the morning tomorrow, and there will be at least some pleasures to be had all the rest of the day. On the new scale, they will be lasting pleasures and important in ways that didn't seem all that important on the old scale. That is why I'm glad when I see you remind us to have a happy thanksgiving every day. Hell, every moment, for that matter. It reminds me that the scale most of us are living on in our day-to-day lives is a little arbitrary, and maybe even a bit delusional, and it never hurts to be reminded that the scale you are using isn't necessarily reliable. We'd all do well to pay a little closer attention to the measurements we take. It’s a long-term struggle, Mara, as you well know. That’s why it’s so important to focus life down to the daily, short-term pleasures… also as you well know. We are used to a particularly opened-ended scale when we are well and feeling indestructible. When we are sick and feeling less indestructible, the scale naturally changes. You will wake up in the morning tomorrow, and there will be at least some pleasures to be had all the rest of the day. On the new scale, they will be lasting pleasures and important in ways that didn’t seem all that important on the old scale. That is why I’m glad when I see you remind us to have a happy thanksgiving every day. Hell, every moment, for that matter. It reminds me that the scale most of us are living on in our day-to-day lives is a little arbitrary, and maybe even a bit delusional, and it never hurts to be reminded that the scale you are using isn’t necessarily reliable. We’d all do well to pay a little closer attention to the measurements we take.

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