Re: gaggin'

On Oct 27, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Peter T. Chattaway wrote:
> and three thoughts pass through my brain simultaneously:  One, dear  
> God let this be over soon. Two, if something happened to me, what  
> would my kids do, and when would anybody find out?

Glad it all worked out for you.

Back when I was traveling, one day I had contracted food poisoning or  
something and called in sick.  I had put the DND sign on my hotel room  
door and was so sick I thought I was going to die.  I wondered then if  
I died, how long it would be before anyone found me and noticed.  I'm  
thinking at least 2-3 days.

Also, when I was travelling in Russia, I had taken an excursion to a  
remote hermitage on an island in the middle of nowhere.  I was in a  
tiny soviet era wooden boat with patched holes and a shady looking  
captain who brought gasoline with him in milk jugs, no lifejackets,  
nothing.  We were in such a remote area and in the middle of a  
gigantic lake, that if we went down I'm sure it would have been weeks  
or months before anyone figured something out and our bodies likely  
would have never been found.

But I have found, it is good every now and then to be reminded of  
one's own mortality.  Ironically, at that very hermitage I visited on  
that tiny island, there was an open grave.  The current lone hermit  
monk there told us that the hermitage's founder, a 15th century monk  
(St. Alexander of Svir) had dug his own grave there to remind him of  
his own mortality, lest he get too prideful.

regards,
-Lance

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