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Listening to... C's Mix 2000
Exercise Done... 1 hr yoga

The London bombings were horrific. I've not commented before because it was all too personal, in a way. I was there. I waved at double decker busses. I walked the streets around the British Museum. I traveled that metro system. London felt like home, and now it was violated. People are hurting, dead, gone. Once again life has changed.
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One of my dearest friends called last week to tell me the surprising news that, after 20 years of marriage and a 15 y/o and a 4 y/o, she's pregnant. She's my age, 45, and pregnant when she really doesn't want to be. When she hadn't planned to be. Add in her religious beliefs, and this is an inconvenient pregnancy indeed.

She also told me about a friend of ours whose only child of 12 has come down with leukemia. A beatable disease, and the family is optimistic, but they've got three years' hard slogging ahead of "chemotherapy with a side order of radiation". I offered platelets, as he's getting treated in Santa Barbara and that's a doable drive for a friend who moved too far away.

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Heartbreak everywhere. I send to all my dear ones my love, affection, hugs and empathy. May your hearts and bodies heal swiftly and surely, and may you keep your chin up and never look back.