Dancing In The Bubbles
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With a bucket of soapy water and hoops attached to long rods a man created a moment of fun for all the children. Adults laughed as they watched.
Our friend had gone to emergency with chest pains which turned into a minor artery blockage and easy surgery calling for stents. Suddenly other complications started developing and four days later her life suddenly ended.
The text message from her husband telling us that our friend had passed away was devastating. She had been having a few health problems for the last few years, but nothing, which indicated a fatal illness. She had always overcome her health issues in the past.
It is going to take us some time to sort through this whole series of events, to try and make sense of what happened, how it will impact our lives, and what we can learn.
I am reminded of a friend a few years ago. When the Stock Market tumbled in 2008/9 and our 401ks took a beating our new retirement plan was a tongue-in-cheek to “work until we died”. Then he died. In about four weeks an undetected cancer took him from feeling “uncomfortable” to comatose in the hospital and dead four days later.
With a bucket of soapy water and hoops attached to long rods a man created a moment of fun for all the children. Adults laughed as they watched.
There are many things we do not know and our future is at the top of the list.
Our lives are too short to waste our precious time worrying about problem we cannot solve or preparing for events, which may never happen.
We need to be responsible to our loved ones and ourselves. We need to prepare for the future as best we can both physically and spiritually. We need to support the world around us by sharing our prosperity to help other people improve their lives.
We also need to remember that life is uncertain. We need to see the beauty surrounds us and take every opportunity we can to dance in those glorious moments.
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People getting on the london eye. The London Eye is the single biggest Ferris wheel and the largest attraction in the United Kingdom. One rotation takes about 30 minutes (10 inches per second). About 3.8 million people a year ride the Eye.
Nearing the top. Standing 443 feet tall (the wheel is 394 feet in diameter) it has 32 pods (an “Eye” pod for each of the 32 London Boroughs) each weighing about 10 tons and holding 25 people.