Thursday, April 10, 2014

Taking a Break

My father would have been 66 today.  He died on September 1st, 2013.

I expected him to be around for another 20 years at least.  My family is normally long lived, at least for the men.   I expected him to be a participant in my son's life.

My grandfather, his father, beat three different cancers.  It was my father's unwillingness to go to the doctor which killed him: he didn't go until AFTER it had metastasized and then he fought it for seven years (!!) until he died and he fought bitterly until the end.

Get yourself screened for cancer, folks.  

You're going to get a series of PaleoProterozoic to MesoProterozoic maps from a recent paper.

I'm going to take a break today to contemplate. 

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