2008

It's hard to comprehend that we are almost a week into 2008. What in the wide world of sports happened to the year 2000? I guess Conan O'Brien knows... you know the bit.

The holidays were good. We had a scare with a family member. I'm not looking forward to what is to come. There isn't much that I can do at this point. I have to do more. For the sake of someone else's sanity. I will just say that it seems to me that during the last few years of your life, when you have put a lot of them behind you, that it seems only fair that you should be able to have some dignity.

It must be difficult enough to lose your vision, your hearing, your independence... your health. But to see someone losing themselves... to know that they don't know your name, to have the same conversations, but yet they know that they aren't going to be who they are. It makes me very angry to be honest. I am angry that it is happening. I am angry that I don't do more. I am angry that I have taken many years in my relationship with my grand-aunt for granted. I am angry that I cannot do anything. I am angry that my brother cannot do anything. A vibrant, independent, funny, caring person... she is. She is all of those things and more. I am seeing her deflate and it is painful for her.

I pray for the grace of God and his blessings during this year.