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3 good things (sunny day version) November 5, 2009

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1. It’s November, 60 degrees, yet sunny and warm on my deck.

2. The wind is strong, and ocean’s the sapphire-brilliance is speckled white.

3. I actually have the time today to sit and listen to Yaron Brook’s lecture series “The Corporation” which UPS delivered yesterday.

Your Founding Father September 17, 2009

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“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
States of America.”
— Preamble To The United States Constitution

Just in case you missed it at the bottom of 3 Ring Binder‘s post “Memorizing the Preamble:

Celebrate the Constitution and find out which Founding Father you’re most like.

–Then let me know which one you are most like!

(I am most like Madison.)

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.”
— James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President, Source: in a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1788

3 good things (father-in-law version) August 11, 2009

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1. We got a primo parking spot at Kaiser yesterday when I took him to one of his appointments. Someone pulled out just as we pulled in. (Small things are important too.)

2. Expecting an injection in his eyeball to prevent macular degeneration, (having seen and done a lot as an ER doc, that’s one procedure I can’t stand to watch!) he was told there had been no significant change and he didn’t need the shot!!

3. It’s been four weeks since he’s needed a thoracentesis to drain the fluid from his chest cavity–which means the chemo is doing something good. There was only a week between the first and second, and then 2 weeks between the second and third. Now 4 full weeks, and though I can hear that some fluid is present, it’s not nearly as much and he is asymptomatic.