OT: Natasha Richardson dies at 45 after ski accident

[Blueskies]

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Don't forget I had head trauma this past August...
My feet fell 10 feet but my head fell 15 feet.

You are very lucky and I'm so glad you are okay - someone was looking out for you! When I was little, one of my aunts decided to try out her son's motorcycle. She was hardly moving, but lost control and crashed into a fence without a helmet. I don't remember her very well before the accident, but she spent the rest of her life (about 25 years) paralyzed from the neck down and confined to a bed in a care facility. She suffered greatly and it breaks my heart to see that happen.

Thats rough. I'm sure there's a lot more about her you could add but sharing that much alone is enough to teach others to count their blessings instead of complaining about the trivial. I hear a lot of people grumbling and moaning about the current state of the economy and maybe not being able to buy a bunch of "stuff" like they used to..things they can live just fine without. There are much tougher things some have to contend with ...so with that in mind it keeps things in perspective.

[Shadowsong]

Oooops!

Don't forget I had head trauma this past August...
My feet fell 10 feet but my head fell 15 feet.

You are very lucky and I'm so glad you are okay - someone was looking out for you! When I was little, one of my aunts decided to try out her son's motorcycle. She was hardly moving, but lost control and crashed into a fence without a helmet. I don't remember her very well before the accident, but she spent the rest of her life (about 25 years) paralyzed from the neck down and confined to a bed in a care facility. She suffered greatly and it breaks my heart to see that happen.

Thats rough. I'm sure there's a lot more about her you could add but sharing that much alone is enough to teach others to count their blessings instead of complaining about the trivial. I hear a lot of people grumbling and moaning about the current state of the economy and maybe not being able to buy a bunch of "stuff" like they used to..things they can live just fine without. There are much tougher things some have to contend with ...so with that in mind it keeps things in perspective.

True we should be thankful we just have the basic blessings like sight hearing & movement. There are so many who struggle living there life in the dark or unable to move there limbs.

I grumble about really in the scope of this world very insignificant things & it is good sometimes to step out of ones body & think about others.
I see this woman in my building confined to a wheel chair I know for at least the last 20 plus years. I know not of when or how she became disabled but I sometimes look at her in wonder as she smiles reading a book in the sun in her wheel chair & wonder how her life is & all the daily struggles she must face just to get out of bed & get dressed. Still she does it...goes to work & comes home every day.

So you see we all should really be very thankful for so much of our life that we take for granted.

I know I am blessed & when I get moody from a wrinkle in the space of my existance I look back upon that summer that moved my spirit light years in time.