Below is a letter a friend of mine from Baltimore after one of her closest friends passed away. I was so moved by her words that I had to share it with her permission. The way she describes the life of her friend is an inspiration.

This info about the presidential debates is from the PBS website for Bill Moyer’s television series NOW – if you are not watching this show you are not watching the most informative and honest program on television.

Dear Friends,

Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner — IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies.

OK, so though the journaling about the fast did not go very well the fast did. I lost in the neighborhood of 20 lbs. Though I should gain a bit of that back. More than the weigh my body feels clean on the inside, and I have been meeting with a nutritionist to get educated about the things I should be eating.

Who are all of these people …

Facts about our president – our rather THEIR president: (I think I posted somethign like this before but just couldn’t help putting this up)

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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein

I am at the beginning of a ten day fast – who knows where it will lead me. Will I be thin, will I have new insight into what sorts of substances I want in my body. Will I have visions (other than visions of cheeseburgers and shakes and decadent chocolate yumminesses) � stop torturing yourself man!

“I think he is a bully, and like all bullies, he�s a coward when confronted with a force that he�s fearful of. His reactions to the extravagant and unbelievably selfish wish list of the wealthy interest groups that put him in the White House are obsequious. The degree of obsequiousness that is involved in saying �yes, yes, yes, yes,� to whatever these people want, no matter the damage and harm done to the nation as a whole � that can come only from genuine moral cowardice.� So speaks former Vice President Al Gore of President George W. Bush in his interview with David Remnick of The New Yorker.