{"id":19312,"date":"2016-01-22T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19312"},"modified":"2016-01-22T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:41:30","slug":"friday-fun-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/22\/friday-fun-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun \u2013 Postponed …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This has not been a good month for my friends and family.  Shortly before Christmas my nurse of many years at work, who was 10-15 years younger than I am and a model of healthy living, had a massive coronary event, went into pulmonary failure and was subsequently taken off all support systems.<\/p>\n

Then shortly after Christmas a favorite aunt, who had been in a car accident, developed pneumonia and passed away.<\/p>\n

And yesterday I learned that the nurse practitioner in our office, with whom I became fast friends with both her and her family, had also passed away.<\/p>\n

The deaths of three people I cherish in a month’s time have kind of taken the wind out of my sails. <\/p>\n

I had already started work on this week’s “Friday Fun”<\/em><\/strong>, so I should be able to post it by tomorrow or Sunday.  And I’ll still be commenting, because I hope it’ll be therapeutic.<\/p>\n

As a preview, I’ll note that Lynn had recently mentioned she’s working her way through the 2009 Oscar-winning movie “Avatar”<\/em><\/strong>.  In the dregs of my mind that reminded me that a number of the surreal locations in the film were actually inspired by other-worldly spots right here on earth.  We’ll visit some of them shortly …<\/p>\n

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