No need to apologize, Ron. We are facing a similar situation this weekend, believe it or not. Apparently, the Princess' uncle has been very ill for  several months and fell in his home three days ago. NO ONE came for him and he could not reach a phone so he laid there, helpless, for the entire time! He was placed in ICU last night and she went to the hospital to be with him.  Further, her brother's wife found a lump Friday and has to have emergency surgery next week. In a nutshell, ALL very bad.

I often wonder at times like these about the true fragility of life. Those of us that were around years ago will recall my battle and subsequent life-change. It amazes me how easily we forget that life is so much like a small pool of water in a desert. It exists only so long as conditions allow. The delicate balance that sustains it can change and cause a catastrophic shift in the blink of an eye, yet we go on..everyday..never realizing that we walk a plank in this world and rely on things completely out of our control to keep us from falling. One small change in our world and we start to slip..to teeter..waving our arms desperately as we try to maintain balance... It's only then that we realize there is a VERY real possibility that we will drop. Or that we MAY drop.

I am grateful for each day. I cannot say that this was always so. I worried about tomorrow. I wondered "what will become of me"..? I have come to realize that I can control somethings and others, I cannot. I try, when possible, to live in the moment. Music has made an incredible difference for me. For brief periods, I am transported to another world. Another life. I become someone else. Someone from a dream. I live there for an hour or so and return back to myself and I smile. I know that I am still balanced on that plank..for now. I may fall tomorrow but , then again, I may not. No matter what, I accept that the pool is still there. The water has not dried up and the elements have not conspired against me...today. I drink. I live. I sleep. I do it all again. For now. Enjoy the moment, my friends. Make that moment count. When you wake in the morning and IF the pool is still there, enjoy it again.

		ron h wrote:
		Sorry I left so abruptly yesterday Freeze and Guido, this has turned into quite the weekend so far.  Had to go visit my Dad yesterday with my brother as he is now in a conv. home.  He had a kidney removed just after the new year because of cancer and was supposedly cancer free after that.  Two weeks ago he was home watching TV when he felt a sharp pain on his side.  A trip to the emergency room and two days of testing later it was discovered that cancer had returned to his lungs, liver and in his bones.  He's been in and out of radiation since and is rarely awake and coherant.  Tomorrow he starts chemo and that will continue until he can't handle it anymore or it's gone (highly unlikely as it's in his bones now).  So being in what I jokingly call a halfway house, he was up and about and we wound up staying the bulk of the day with him. On the flip side, my daughter is at the hospital about ready to give birth to Loghan, my grandson.  I'll be heading over there in the next hour or so. Freeze, one could not claim a love for the game if they didn't know who Vin Scully was.  I did not know he was retiring at the end of the season, he will be greatly missed!!  I completely feel your pain, bro.  Like you, the voice's of summers gone by bring warmth to my heart and a smile to my face...eternal youth and hope!!  Vin Scully is a true living legend!! Guido!!!  I do remember now that I see it!!!!  A fellow Priest AND Cubs fan, it get's no better than that!!!  And that's your brother with you?  Two peas in a pod I say!!      Deep Freeze wrote:   Don't even get me started!! You may or may not know this but, 2010 is Vin Scully's final year as THE voice of the Dodgers.  I cannot even begin to tell you guys what his voice means to me. I recall my youth everytime he speaks. Such an icon. Such a true professional and a master of his craft. Things will just NOT be the same without him but I will always be grateful for the memories he has provided.      ron h wrote:   Well, you've got plenty of time to find the pic as you wrote you would post 'IF' they won the WS.  I've never seen the one of you during the WS!!! Harry Carey was / is a true legend rip.  I miss him in the booth so much!!  What I wouldn't give to have run into him one night at some bar on Rush Street!!      guidogodoy wrote:   Oh, don't get me wrong. I stand by MY post 100% (save for that bad Don Henley song and worst running movie ever made). I actually have a picture of old Tiger Stadium in my office. Got the new one too. Bought at a market right in the streets of Greektown. Need I call back that pic of me and my bro with one of my FIRST JP cross pictures during the World Series? Skipped school every opening day. Sadly, to see the Tigs lose most often than not. Sad to say the same for the Cubbies. Hell, Harry Carey made life a very good thing in the 7th irrespective of the outcome. Haven't forgotten the pic of me waiting on the platform for the L, Ron. Just can't find it. HAAAAA!!!      Deep Freeze wrote:   HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good, ol' Don!! Never liked that song all that much...HAHAHHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!! Nevertheless, I stand by my post!! Tis MY time of year and it creepeth ever closer!! Ron, glad I could find a way to take you with me to "that place". Cubs, Dodgers, Toledo Mudhens...makes no diffference to me. Its all about the time of year and all those things which make it what it is to us. Things that remind of us simpler days. Of family vacations in the mountains or at the beach or wherever. Camping, swimming, hiking. Sitting in that aforementioned chair after all the "eatin" is done and just looking into the night sky... Nothing like a warm, summer evening by the pool.