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My recent heart troubles have reminded me of what is important. Health is the most important thing. So, as I navigate the cardiologist and thoracic surgeon landsscape once again, today Diane had to get a cardiac cath of her own. Can you imagine two heart patients in the same house? Who would cater to me?

 
He stood in the kitchen,
surrounded by pots and pans,
and trying to decide
if he had the makings of a meal.
He found onions
and lettuce,
and tomatoes,
and seasonings,
and nuts
and other legumes.
He began to cook,
and stirred the pot,
with strong odors
and smoke wafting
through the kitchen.
He

Dealing with the inevitable fact that we all die has special meaning today, as I am facing some serious heart issues again. They first surfaced ten years ago, and that experience is what got me into my study of Stoicism, which seems to me to handle the issue of certain death better than the religions.

Tend to your garden,
the gardener told me,
as I watched him gently tilling the soil
of his personal plot.
He grew plants, and bushes,
and trees, and fruits and vegetables,
and intermixed small rocks and boulders,
until he had created a beautiful space.

It was obvious that he cared deeply
for his creation,
and

Vile knave. Dost thou not know that my client has been harmed by thy actions? Dost thou think that the wrong will not be righted by my veritable legal ability? 
If you have problems communicating as a lawyer, don’t succumb to the modern tendency to be informal and conversational. Take a lesson from our forbears.