Today I had a discussion with my student about what the merits of Angry Birds were versus Flight Control. The most frightening part of my day was when that same student pulled back too abruptly on the controls at about 5 feet above the runway, and we almost stalled. To an inexperienced pilot, maybe a major issue--but to me just enough to wake me up.
After work on a Saturday, to which everyone (including me) was clearly not happy with, I went to a party for my daughter's softball team.
The host of this party was her coach, a disabled veteran who was on the first push into Iraq in 2003. I never had the nerve to ask him how he was disabled. After several beers tonight I got my chance.
Jul
17
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17
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What is the price of life?
I sit here watching my 4 year old son, flailing miserably in his swim class. he doesn't judge himself--no, he is full of smiles from ear to ear. My thoughts are of tasks to accomplish. I have managed to convince my boss to allow me some time off, and my plans are to use that time off to catch up in projects that are in dire need of my attention around the house. As I watch my son, I have checked my watch 4 times in 30 minutes.
6 hours away in Houston a person I know only in passing sits in a hospital room. Her four year old son lay in a bed undergoing his latest round of chemotherapy. For the last year this little boy has fought brain cancer, and it appears to be winning the fight. His cancer has spread--and their hopes lay on trial treatments, hoping to cure the incurable.
The thought crosses my mind as I watch my child try in vain to complete a backstroke--this mundane, simple task I am doing, distracted by a lawn that needs to be mowed, how valuable would this simple time be to my friend? Something so small to me, an inconvenience in my simple mind--of what value us this to one fighting for her child's life?
