Thanks to one and all for the prayers and good wishes!

I have received many lovely notes, emails, and face to face sentiments, which are greatly appreciated by everyone in my family.

My good friend all-the-way-back-to-college Dennis Cannon sent me an email in which he said “I’d like to call it an adventure, because I think you kind of see it as a unique challenge. Like climbing Everest.” And my friend Paul Dinter said after Mass yesterday  “You are off on your chemically assisted Retreat.”

I thought those were pretty accurate ways of putting things (although climbing Everest – I don’t know that’s a heck of a high mountain!). I’ve got a bunch of books, internet access, some time on my hands, and I hope to be able to put it to good use.

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If you’re given an lemon, make lemonade.