July 14th

July 3, 2008 My memory has been tugging at the date, July 14, since yesterday when Dr. Jackson's office told me that I had an appointment at Duke University Medical Center that day for a second opinion. Finally this morning I remembered. July 14th is Bastille Day in France. A remembrance of the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution. What an image. Violence, full of fury, a desparate act of despair and hope. Dramatic? Yes. Yet what part of these past six months and this process have not been filled with the component dramas of the human condition? Filled with hope. And filled with a sadness near despair. There have been strategies blown apart, plans pushed aside, justice questioned. Personal drama against the backdrop of a flawed system and the solidarity of love. So, we move on.