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Continuing Day 1 with ruminations on time, death and taxes...well not really taxes, but time, which I finally have in abundance and death which struck a family member recently.  Sad to have read in the news that my dear cousin Vance had passed away....Time:  Don't tell yourself you will reconnect with your friends and loved one's when you have time.  I'm mid morning on day of of time and one of the dearest people from my early life has left the building.  So...go, do, say, love, call, email, write, think, but definately do it now time's a waistin'


and...Love and Respect:
I want to thank my friend and colleague Donna for her card that came in the mail yesterday, my last official day of work.  "Best Wishes on Your Retirement...Hope everything you've been looking forward to brings you even more happiness than you ever dreamed possible" lovely words and thoughts, nice if you knew what you were looking forward to (other than not getting up and going to work every day).  I guess I'll work that out.  But the salutation was especially meaningful, she said: "With love and respect, signed, Donna, and added I'll miss you"...Wow that, in my mind, is the ultimate compliment.  If I can keep people in my life and engender love and respect in the "Next" then I will have accomplished something.  What I now dream of, is Love and Respect, in this place and time I'm calling the "Next"!