......... And even worse is the knowledge that many, many others, who have something (maybe not much, but something) to share, will go to the grave without ever having written it down, or will have written it down and not refined it through feedback until it becomes recognizable as a gem and therefore published............... It has been just over 10 months since I lost my wife of 24 years to cancer - she was 43. Knowing that she was going to die, she took the adage "live today as if it were your last day" and did just that. One thing that she left all of us was do not wait to pursue your dreams - tomorrow may be to late. She wrote a statement on living and dying that was read at her celebration of life - it is an uplifting statement that can be found at http://www.dv-fansler.com/Ann/ann_testimony.htm. Fair warning to James Newton - Ann's testimony does have religious overtones :). David V. Fansler DFansler@MindSpring.com Now Showing www.dv-fansler.com -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body