A good read: The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/034...298241?ie=UTF8

No, this is not about the music director for the Academy of Ancient Music that you hear on Nat'l Public Radio. It is about a pig that was adopted as a runt and given an absolutely luxurious life in rural New Hampshire, and what he taught his human companions about life and what he gave back to them.

I sat in the Phx airport this afternoon reading the last pages and sobbed through the last couple chapters. Montgomery says near the end "So go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that." I found out Monday when I called my mom from the airport that my father's non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma may have returned, on top of the other mysterious health issues he's been having. Fate that I was reading the book already. It will help me focus on good things as we get through the next few weeks.