We are the same age, and I joined Free Republic just a month before you did. Are you battling cancer? I will include you in my daily Rosary prayers. God removes things from us (including life itself) so that we will need to go to Him for everything. I teach high school, and that thought is from the last thing we cover in the year, The Hound of Heaven (an poem by a Victorian English opium addict).
Yes, I have inoperable cancer of the throat & tongue area that is spreading. Radiation and chemo didn’t work. Hospice is coming today to give my wife and I information. Thanks for your prayers and well wishes.