People of value and bravery and things like that.


I was just talking with a colleague about another who has always amazed me as totally available and quietly very competent. She can do amazing things and is patient and never draws attention to her daily brilliance and miracle working.

Last night I spent time with an elderly relative who is having serious doubts about her ability to go on in the face of hardship and very ill health. All of her systems are failing and maintenance treatments are taking a tremendous toll. I was telling her how bravery is doing "the right thing" in the face of adversity, not having the "whatever" to do the dangerous or risky-to-safety thing. So it might be much more brave and honorable to work with the treatments than to do the "dangerous" thing and end life-sustaining treatments. Its a hard thing to define... which is brave and honorable and which is just plain foolhardy. It needs to be defined by the situation and time.

The thought that ties them together is a matter of personal integrity and "worth."

Is it too trite to say that it is easier to be a character than to have character. Maybe that is it, and then again maybe its not.


Boy am I tired! I'm going home now through the snow.....