biLL, like Ebbie, sending good wishes to you and your wife. Something like that sure makes everything else, pale, doesn't it?

Ebbie, "all the things that make one's heart lift"- yes, and like Bob said, there are so many.

Mary, sometimes for me, it's the simple things that I'm most deeply appreciative of.....

It's nice to think of kat & Jacqui's experience of grandparenting. I'll look forward to that someday.

music! that's a biggie!

KT