Walks: Hood
Distances: 3 miles
So one moment Ciwt was looking toward her empty dining room and talking to her visiting best friend from D.C.. And the next moment, her dining room looked like this. Filled with EMT's and firemen, all of whom deserve a medal for their quick arrival and total competence.
Her friend had fallen. Badly it turned out at the hospital. In a nanosecond everything was different and awful.
What Ciwt say? She can borrow from Montaigne "Seize the day." Or from Horace who said it decades earlier in Latin, " Carpe Diem." But she'll go with what her friend said several times as she and Ciwt began to let this incomprehensible, unexpected and sad event sink in. "It's random. Things like this, they're random."
PS - Her friend had successful surgery and is now in an outstanding rehabilitation center working tirelessly to recover enough to get on an airplane back to her home, friends, family and dog (who is all those things)in D.C.. Or, as she puts it, getting from A to B.
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