Hey, I was actually SO taken by Gail Collins' column on this yesterday that I emailed her to say "Great column; been meaning to tell you I like your work." I was reading parts of it out loud to my spouse in the next room and laughing immoderately. "Finally, a governor who’s weirder than Rod Blagojevich and less responsible than Eliot Spitzer." Thank you, Gail.
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks