Catching up: Death, cognition and challenging your assumptions

My regular readers may wonder - at least I hope they did - where I’ve been. I’m usually fairly dependable for the Monday Musings and Friday Fishwrap, even when everything else falls apart. During the last couple of weeks we’ve been on a deathwatch of sorts. A longtime friend, and family member in all ways except blood, has been in the final stages of life and finally passed yesterday afternoon.

We didn’t find out immediately since we were without even basic phone service for several hours due to having AT&T U-verse set up here at Rancho Ryan. When the call finally came through, the last thing anybody wanted to do was write blog posts. The tears were running too heavy to even see.

Jack was 85 years. The glioblastoma had come on rather suddenly - undetected -

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