For my lovely friend, Sally-Anne, who always brings light into my life, and whose precious words I've quoted at the end. --------------- One of my diabetic patients asks me if she can eat "just one piece of cake each day." Flourless chocolate cake. With icing all around. Her family has recently celebrated a birthday and there is so much left over. "Just one piece a day... Until it is finished." She knows the answer, she hadn't needed to ask the question. And her pleading eyes reflect it. Yet her question invites me to hold out the big stick, .. to rap her over the knuckles and set the no-more-chocolate-cake limits for her. And it's sometimes far easier this way , feigning ignorance, proverbially hiding an ostrich-head in the sand and taking no responsibility. So I hesitate in weighing my answer, hoping to choose the kindest, most helpful words possible to answer her rhetorical question. I already know sh
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." — Dr. Seuss