Monday, August 3, 2009

Questions to ponder

"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born?
Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think
about these once in a while, and watch your answers change."

Richard Bach (1936- ), American author, in `Illusions,'
1977

And here is yet another question I wish to pose because I just recently had to come up with an answer myself. I learned a few weeks ago that one of our office managers has terminal cancer that has progressed and she now has only a few months. Everyone in the office got together and made her a giant card with funny pictures of everyone she worked with. What do you write on a card that is being given to someone in this position? "Get well" just doesn't cut it at this point.

3 comments:

Patrick said...

I think what you wrote was completely appropriate.

Unknown said...

A tough question I asked myself several years ago...What kind of Christmas card to you buy for your father to give to your mother when he will die before Christmas comes?

freeflying_soul said...

As I have learned the difficult way and it seems so have you, most cards do not adequately express feelings for these situations. I'm sure you did the best you could.