Paris: Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d’autrui

http://www.scalingtheheights.com/helman … isfortune/

Misfortune can be managed, but can also destroy a man or make him heroic. Helman is one of my heros as we both suffer motor neuron disease.

However, the true misfortune in life is to lose it. A line from UNFORGIVEN, the Clint Eastwood movie always strikes me... "All that they ever were and ever will be is taken from them when you kill them...". I think one writes (sic) if a paraphrase.

I now know death, up close and personal. It is a real hell! I cry for the survivors, the parents, the loved one, the children, the wives of those slain in Paris. The pen is mightier than the sword, and someday the pen wielded by a brilliant writer will crush the ambitions of the barbarians trying to beat down our doors and kill us.