Hello Telemark, you don't know me, I've been reading here most of this year. But, I'd be less than a man if I didn't let you know that you helped me man.
You should know that your fealty to the Name in the midst of your agony bore fruit in another man's agony. I don't mean that in some histrionic or emotional sense; but the essence of it: the struggle to overcome.
You sure got that right on the humor.. When the bomb {"We can talk in a year.. I'll probably be in North Carolina}
turned the air to vacuum and I imploded.. but caught myself just enough to mock an unsteady smile and say, "Sorry honey, I thought purty grils like sloppy drunks.."
gotta be able to laugh at the absurdity of the human condition sometimes.. and just try and say it like it is..