Nothing self serving or self pitying about reaching out to friends in a time of need. Not one of us can with stand these things alone. It is only right for us to bear each other up under these burdens. Please do not with hold from us any need that you have. My prayers are with you and your wife.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe