Losses

Over the past couple of weeks the ferret community has lost two very wonderful woman, Rebecca Mc Farlane (everyone called her Reb)and Nancy Clark, both were very involved with the ferret community, Reb gave sanctuary to those ferrets that had little time left, who had "personality" problems, those special kids that needed someone special to love them. Nancy did rescue for many years.

The whole point to this is a song I heard, normally I don't listen to country, but I listened to this song, and it is so true.

There are so many more things in life I want to do before I go, and I try to be a better person, being told by a doctor you need to make sure your affairs are in order, because you probably will die is very sobering. I was told that in 2003, so far, I have proved them wrong.

But read the words to the song. Please take them to heart, if we all do, this world will be a better place.

Maybe we should all live like we were dying.

Live Like You Were Dyin' by Tim McGraw

He said, I was in my early forties
with a lot of life before me
when a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
And I spent most of the next day
looking at the x-rays
Talking 'bout the options
and talking bout sweet time.
I asked him when it sank in
that this might really be the real end?
How’s it hit you when you get that kinda news?
Man what’d you do?

And he said,
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu manchu.
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter.
And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying
and I watched an eagle as it was flying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

He said I was finally the husband
that most of the time I wasn’t
and I became the kind of friend a friend would like to have.
And all the sudden going fishin
wasn’t such an imposition,
and I went three times that year I lost my dad.
Well I finally read the Good Book
and I took a good long hard look
at what I’d do if I could do it all again.

And then
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu manchu.
And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter.
And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying
and I watched an eagle as it was flying.
And he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

Like tomorrow was a gift and you got eternity to think about
what’d you do with it? What did you do with it?
What did I do with it?
What would I do with it?

And then I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu manchu.
And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I’d been denying
and I watched an eagle as it was flying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.
To live like you were dying