File this one in "top five places you're least likely to see Craig." Taking a wee rest before the PD support group in the Richland Lutheran church. Moments later, I did indeed rise... 

We Serve

I flew Bill and Dave to Richland, WA yesterday. Home of the Bombers. This high school mascot is represented by the symbol of the atom - paean to Hanford Nuclear Reservation, former employer of the many. (Now just putting the 'reservation' back into nuclear.)

We went to speak to the Richland tri-Cities Parkinson's support group. A very nice group. Inquisitive and hopeful, and rightly so.

We used to go out to a lot of these groups, and will probably do more again in the near future. It's the best part of the whole Parkinson's thing we've started - getting to go out and fire people up about getting help for what they're dealing with.

If you know me, this may sound rather cheerleader-ish. But if you know me really well, you know I mean it.

And then there was the flying... over the Cascades, between the growing cumulus, dropping into eastern Washington to run under the freezing clouds. The flight home was gorgeous too. Jeff Renner really has no f*cking idea some times... The weather was delightful.

I think this photo has no relation to the following story. I just like it.

Free Her

Just let it go.

Why can’t you just let it go?

There’s nothing left of any value for her here. And she is bringing nothing to the world. Without even walking a mile attached to her catheter, just imagine five minutes.

If anyone is in there, you simply must know she wants out of the hell she’s being kept in.

The vocal majority of people trying to keep her here are people who believe that this life is but a stopping ground on the way to the greater reward. Hasn’t she suffered enough by now to get into your heaven?

This is a still-beating heart serving a dead body. At least you, in your religious finery, better hope that’s all. Because if she has one shred of consciousness left, this is the most excruciating treatment one could sentence her to. And you do it in the name of what?

We treat our pets better than this.

Why don't you see it?