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Gypsy Jan
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Life is So Very Fragile and Precious
I wasn't going to post about this, but it is Baja related and the current discussion about Whitney Houston's death has me thinking about life and
random chance.
A local man was a member of a crew working on a project near our home. I saw him every morning, but didn't know him or his name, but he was friendly
and always acknowledged me, smiling, and nodding, and I waved hello to him on my ins and outs.
Two days ago, he was working on a project at La Salina and had a massive heart attack and died on the spot, even though his co-workers applied CPR.
His friends tell me he was a good man, a good husband and father with no drug or alcohol problems.
He was 40-years-old and leaves a wife and four children behind.
[Edited on 3-24-2012 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Pompano
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My sincere regrets, Gypsy Jan...even though probably none of us knew him..the death of any man diminishes us all to some degree. If that sounds
familiar, it is!
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Cisco
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
I wasn't going to post about this, but it is Baja related and the current discussion about Whitney Houston's death has me thinking about life and
random chance.
A local man was a member of a crew working on a project near our home. I saw him every morning, but didn't know him or his namelly, but he was
friendly and always acknowledged me, smiling, and nodding, and I waved hello to him on my ins and outs.
Two days ago, he was working on a project at La Salina and had a massive heart attack and died on the spot, even though his co-workers applied CPR.
His friends tell me he was a good man, a good husband and with father with no drug or alcohol problems.
He was 40-years-old and leaves a wife and four children behind.
[Edited on 3-24-2012 by Gypsy Jan] |
Don't recall where I got this quote. Maybe even here. I thought it quite inspirational.
"Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your
one wild and precious life?“
~ American poet Mary Oliver
From "The summer day"; New and Selected Poems 1992
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EnsenadaDr
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Similar situation...
There was a dentist working at a clinic that I frequent once a week. During the months of August and September of last year, the heat was stifling
during the night when I did my overnight shift. I borrowed a fan from the Dentist's office, and the security guard said I needed to ask him first to
use it any further. Everytime I was there he came in, with a smile, in the early morning hours, and spoke English with me and said I could use his
fan. He was a very nice person. A few months ago, I met a new dentist. The boss told me he was replacing the other dentist. I asked where he went.
He said he had a massive heart attack and died. I suddenly felt so sad, he was one of the only cheery workers that would always have a smile and a
kind word. I see his picture on the wall at the clinic, and still feel bad. | Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
I wasn't going to post about this, but it is Baja related and the current discussion about Whitney Houston's death has me thinking about life and
random chance.
A local man was a member of a crew working on a project near our home. I saw him every morning, but didn't know him or his name, but he was friendly
and always acknowledged me, smiling, and nodding, and I waved hello to him on my ins and outs.
Two days ago, he was working on a project at La Salina and had a massive heart attack and died on the spot, even though his co-workers applied CPR.
His friends tell me he was a good man, a good husband and father with no drug or alcohol problems.
He was 40-years-old and leaves a wife and four children behind.
[Edited on 3-24-2012 by Gypsy Jan] |
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woody with a view
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yeah, it sucks when anyone dies.
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EnsenadaDr
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Really?
Anyone??? | Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
yeah, it sucks when anyone dies. |
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Gypsy Jan
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Well, in the Case of Osama bin Laden
Not so much.
P.S. It took fifteen minutes to post this.
Hello, CIA, I am just exercising free speech.
[Edited on 3-25-2012 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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EnsenadaDr
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Fair to say..
I think it fair to say some deaths affect us more than others... | Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
Not so much.
P.S. It took fifteen minutes to post this.
Hello, CIA, I am just exercising free speech.
[Edited on 3-25-2012 by Gypsy Jan] |
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woody with a view
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Anyone??? | Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
yeah, it sucks when anyone dies. |
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okay, Jerry Sandusky is excluded. that guy in florida that shot the kid is out too!
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BornFisher
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Wednesday our daughter had a son. Last night my uncle died. The eternal circle of life goes on.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
Better live it like you mean it. Ain't no do-overs. |
Word.
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bajalearner
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And another sad story....
I used to frequent the clubs in TJ, (where I live) and I met a door guy calling in men to go inside his club. The man was a deportee of the US and
spoke very good English so we had many conversations. He would update me on the progress of his application process to hire on the TJ police
department as an officer. He was doing some volunteer work for them as an auxiliary cop. Having a police background myself, he enjoyed picking my
brain and updating me. I saw him to be a hard nosed guy but I thought it might be because of his large strong stature and I thought he might make the
grade.
But recently I was in the club area a learned he started working in the busiest and largest club in the zone which has a public entrance on a busy
alley and another public entrance on the street. I have seen several people gather on the alley side who appear to wait for a person who supplies
them with drugs to deal. When given the drugs, the dealers quickly scatter in various directions. Well, I heard my acquaintance was working about
4am as a waiter in the club when he stopped a few of these scattering dealers who would shoot thru the club from the alley to the street side. He
told them to not use the club to scatter. One of the dealers, returned a short time later with a gun and killed my acquaintance with a shot to the
abdomen. Maybe he was a little too hard nosed while only working as a waiter.
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la bocana/punnta abreojos recently had such a sad loss too ... our local mechanic's 14 year old daughter died, massive heart ttack out of the blue.
Her twin sister, who had been diagnosed with a faulty heart is fine - the twin sister with the supposedly "good" heart passed away.
In the last couple years I have had so many friends my age and younger die - kinda scary and yeah...live the life you want to the fullest is a good
motto.
My grandpa lived to be quite old and his biggest complaint was that he had outlived every single friend he had. I can certainly relate more now than
I could when he said this ...
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captkw
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life/doctor's
if you belive what a doctor tell's ya,, I have some cheap land in cabo for sale !! life is short !! make the best of it !! IF each one of us,, did
something nice to each other,,,it will be a nicer planet to live on !! KI&T 
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EnsenadaDr
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Doctors are human, too
Not going to say that everything I say is 100% right all the time, or correct, but I try to do the best I can....and try to help others when I
can. | Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
if you belive what a doctor tell's ya,, I have some cheap land in cabo for sale !! life is short !! make the best of it !! IF each one of us,, did
something nice to each other,,,it will be a nicer planet to live on !! KI&T |
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ens. doc
HOLA, sir...I was not saying anything in regard to you sir,,I do say I'm sorry if I insulted you....I will never forget a few year's ago I was
working on a doctor's ski boat and I said to him "you doctor's have it easy,,,,you only have two model's to work on" he said how is that? I said male
and female, and kept on working on his motor...after about 5 min. he look's at me and said " your right,,but I have to work on them when they are
running" that made me rather humble LOL....K&T
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BTW its ma'am...
Disadvantage to cyberspace...you don't know if you are talking to a man or a woman... | Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
HOLA, sir...I was not saying anything in regard to you sir,,I do say I'm sorry if I insulted you....I will never forget a few year's ago I was
working on a doctor's ski boat and I said to him "you doctor's have it easy,,,,you only have two model's to work on" he said how is that? I said male
and female, and kept on working on his motor...after about 5 min. he look's at me and said " your right,,but I have to work on them when they are
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norte
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Don't worry Doc. K&T is quite cycnical, yet knows way more than everyone else, about everything.
K&T move a little more slowly and you would have noticed Doc is a she
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ens. doc
HOLA, good morning..btw I like your mood !! a great take on life !!! K&T PS, A lot of thing's I don't know about,, I'm still Learning each and every day.........................
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