Chris Isaak has two new-to-me CDs in the library - Lucky Man and Beyond the Sun.  I'm on the list for Beyond the Sun and have listened to Lucky Man.  It was good but I'd need to listen to it again to really appreciate it.  Just love that man's voice as it wraps around me!

The hiker with stage 4 lung cancer - just like state representative Ben Lujan - died Tuesday.  What a shock. She was always warm and kind when I talked with her on hikes.   The funeral home website shows a recent photo of her and one when she was younger - what a knockout beauty she was!!

Thoughts on life and death:  Going quickly would be OK if I made it all right with my life as I lived it and the people that I lived it with.  Haven't quite achieved that.  I'm often wishing for other circumstances rather than appreciating what is.  Linger and you'd want to hold on to life - too much time to ruminate and torture self.  Or, maybe time to set things right and accept death?  Thinking of death makes one appreciate the ordinary like chopping an onion or calling husband to discuss what's for dinner.  Sometimes, though, I make life a struggle.  How to make it less so?  All the things we hate about our life, dying would put in perspective but, of course, it would be too late!

I must say that yesterday, I really relished the many people I knew that I ran into at the library and senior center.  Life is meant to be lived, or something like that my friend in her late 70's once said.