JC, I hope that my long-in-the-tooth joke thread has garnered a few smiles or outright belly laughs for you. I strongly believe that laughter is powerful medicine. I have the following phrase pre-programmed into my Dynavox and it never fails to generate smiles, laughter, and hugs:

"May I have a big hug, purely for medicinal value, please? It's very powerful medicine! Jill will find a way to charge it off to Medicare or the Veterans' Administration!"

Another one is:

(Insert name), have I told you that I love you yet today?"

Another:

"I have just enough room in me wee Irish 'art for just one more love...what was your name again, please?"

I think the entire staff will have wonderful, loving, and fond memories of me when I'm gone. Those memories are far more durable than gold. What more could I hope for?

I am always alert to opportunities to help others and that draws the focus away from my own problems. And being very active in my ministry, a lifesaving work not dissimilar to a firefighter, gives me great satisfaction. A firefighter never gets threatened nor driven off people's property or dogs sicked on them, however.

John Conley, have I told you that I love you yet today?

Donny

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