In her post Sandra encouraged me to set the rules aside and to list the people I would put in the picture. Now that I have completed the list, I am wondering if this might deserve its own thread. It was much more difficult to do than the list of things. I didn't include members of my family in the list because it is obvious that they would be a part of such a representation. Such a picture would include:

- a former teacher who recognized and encouraged my originality of thought.
- a woman from whom I learned the importance of having true friendship as the basis for a romantic relationship.
- a former patient of about my same age who awoke from a nap to discover she was paralyzed from the waist down and in a matter of hours, from the neck down as a result of Guillain-Barré Syndrome. From her I learned how quickly so much that we take for granted could be taken away from us.
- a former boss from whom I learned it was far more productive to discover the solution to a problem than to dwell upon who caused it.
- a farmer from whom I learned the true definition of selfless generosity.