It's just part of the background of modern life.

It was just Providence no one was home when it happened. We're just very thankful. . . . I thank God no one was hurt in our family.

People are opportunities. The gift is in the interaction and the connection with another person, whether it lasts forever or not.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

But what you minded most at our final parting was that in my poor rags -but was it not the costume of a beggar?- you couldn't see our tears as in a suit of armor.

This is one of the few true emergencies where a cardiac surgeon has to get up in the middle of the night.