1) hospice services; 2) palliative care; 3) counseling on end-of-life issues. Three ideal benefits for older Americans and others in need of medical help. Any national health care reform ought to include these features at least.
To have such features portrayed as a neo-Nazi plot amounts to a national disgrace. And to have senators say that number 3 will be withdrawn almost rates as a national tragedy.
How can our nation give way to vested political and commercial interests of this sleazy sort?
“The manner of his doing all these things, things she had done every day for months, suggested courtesy rather than kindness, as if it were a tribute to his father's age rather than a concession to it. And she could see how her father was soothed by these attentions, as if pain were an appetite for comforting of just this kind.”
Charles Darwin, a master of English style, in late life could write: “Looking backwards, I can now perceive how my love for science gradually preponderated over every other taste.”
If an attendee is someonewho attends, why is not someone who sins a sinnee?
On the elevator at Symphony Hall:
Jack: “I thought that was you.”
Me: “I thought that was you.”
Fellow passenger: “You were both right.”
“Journalism is valuable work, wonderful work, dedicated in a profound way to the public interest.” – Anthony Lewis
At the Harvard Epworth Church, during a memorial service for member Geneva Malenfant, the former pastor, Ed Mark, got off the best lines. He recalled one Sunday when, as a candidate for pastor, he preached.
After the service that day, he stood at the door greeting departing parishioners. Geneva came by, shook his hand, and said to him: “That was the worst sermon I have ever heard.”
Ed's second line also drew laughs: “That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”