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OziThat's scary and horrible news.My thoughts and prayers and w/ you and your family.

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My prayers are with you both, please let me know if you need anything

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My heart goes out to you. I don't pray often, but I will pray for you and your mother that both of you will find the strength during this difficult time.

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Ozi, I ended up looking through Herman Hesse's 'My Belief', and wanted to quote this part of his essay 'On Old Age' in hope that it might shed some happy light, as sad as you are at the moment, as to what she may be looking back on and thinking, even though we, being much younger, think of it so differently."I can however, name some of the gifts that old age bestows on us. To me the dearest of these gifts is the treasury of pictures which after a long life one carries in one's memory and to which one turns, as activity decreases, with a quite different interest than ever before. Human figures and faces that for sixty or seventy years have no longer existed on earth go on living within us, they belong to us, provide us with company, look out at us from living eyes. We see houses, gardens, cities that have since disappeared or are wholly changed as they once were, and distant mountain ranges and seacoasts that we once visited on journeys decades ago we find fresh and colorful in our picture book. Noticing, observing, contemplating, become more and more a habit and exercise, and imperceptibly the mood and attitude of the beholder permeate our whole behavior. We, like the majority of men, have stormed through our years and decades of living , driven by wishes, dreams, desires, passions, impatient, tense, expectant, highly excited by fulfillment or by disappointment-and when today we cautiously leaf through the big picture book of our own lives, we are surprised at how beautiful and good it can be to have escaped that chase and pursuit and to have arrived at the vita contemplativa. Here in the garden of old age bloom many flowers to whose cultivation we once barely gave a thought. Here blooms the flower of patience, a noble blossom. We become more relaxed, more considerate, and the fewer our demands for participation and action become, the greater grows our ability to contemplate and listen to the life of nature and of our fellow men, to let that life stream past us without criticism and with ever-renewed astonishment at its variety, sometimes with solicitude and quiet pity, sometimes with laughter, with sheer joy, with humor." I quoted that in hopes that in this time of sorrow, remember that she may very well be looking through her minds scrapbook with great joy, and any time you get to share with her from here on out, however brief, even an eye contact, may just bring her some of her happiest moments, looking back at you, her son, and that is a beautiful thing you can remember in your own mind for the rest of your life, and cherish. Much love and, again, will be thinking of you both. I apologize if I took too much of a liberty here posting this.<3

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