<div dir="ltr"><br><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hi Marilyn,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I heard about your accident, and
that you’ll be laid up for a while. And
I heard about the wonderful things you’ve already done in your life, which this
will interrupt.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Just remember that experiencing redness
for only 5 minutes, and then life ending, would be worth the millions of years
of evolutionary struggle before life was able to experience something so phenomenally
wonderful. To say nothing about all the
other experiences we are all able to experience every single minute of every day
with our friends and families. It is a
shame that everyone tends to take all that kind of phenomenal joy for granted.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Brent Allsop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Founding Partner Canonizer.com</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 10:50 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Reposting under new subject line.<br>
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Last Sunday, my son's childhood friend was in a bad accident, van hit her on<br>
her bicycle. She is busted up all to hell, comatose for three and a half<br>
days, but when she woke up yesterday she was still Marilyn, asking all the<br>
expected questions. She has going in her favor that she was a track star<br>
and in excellent physical condition. This is the girl who organized a<br>
non-profit math tutoring service at her high school, was a gold medalist<br>
athlete, eagle in Boy Scouts, gold rank in girl scouts (two different<br>
things) was scheduled to be the head of next week's National Youth<br>
Leadership Training for Boy Scouts of America, just all around good kid.<br>
<br>
Here's what I need from you please: write a sentence or two of encouragement<br>
to the patient, considering what you would feel if you were a teenage track<br>
star who suddenly needs to spend a few weeks at least in the hospital with<br>
nothing to do. If you have other chat groups, forward this note, ask them<br>
to please write a line or two for a teenage accident victim, forward the<br>
comments and well-wishes to me. We are friends with her family. I will<br>
print, cut out, paste hard copy into handmade get-well cards or a poster or<br>
both, take them over to her at the hospital. Do it please, do it now, do it<br>
with all the good will you can manage. Post them here, offlist is fine:<br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a><br>
<br>
and I will take it from there. Her name is Marilyn Do.<br>
Do it for Do. Send them. Do it now pls. Thanks!<br>
<br>
spike<br>
<br>
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