Last week friend of mine was hit head on while being driven home after a cruise in Hawaii. Both drivers were killed. Marcia will be in hospital for a week then some time in a convalescence facility. She had just retired from a long government career a couple weeks ago. It's too much to process, it can't be placed into a rational context. We make plans, hit the road, and sometimes the roads have other plans for us. She was hit by a loaded gravel truck a few months ago and escaped unscratched. She has plans to start her new house in Northern Neck Virginia near Heathville (by a large pond where she can go canoeing) but circumstances are detouring her temporarily to Maine where she can recover at her sons home. Her friend Hyomi left a little teddy bear in her hospital bed. She has held it for days.