- ……I was sure he was gonna die last night, but I prayerfully had another whole day with him today. A whole day of companionship. A whole day of sharing the sublimity of consciousness. A whole day of co-existing with a creature I love versus the backdrop of an endless Universe with no true beginning and no true end. That’s worth something, isn’t it? Actually, it’s worth a lot. A helluva lot!!! It means the world to me, just as each successive day that he continues to be alive will mean the world to me as well. Life is lived in bits and pieces–in tantalizingly small fragments akin to slowly savoring your way through a package of M&Ms–and every additional fragment that I can get with him now and over the next handful of days–however small and however short-lived those turn out to be–will warm my soul and feel like an earthshaking moral victory…..
Fred's Soapbox 