SAN MATEO SE--I am standing in front of the Thai Ginger waiting for the rescue unit to arrive. It does and two young men in AFD tee-shirts bring their equipment inside. A woman of 80 is feeling faint...in fact she has been on the verge of passing out for several minutes. She doesn't want to go to the hospital. The ambulance pulls up and two more guys come in, wearing the white shirts of paramedics. She is insistent about not going anywhere, but her friends prevail upon her and she leaves the restaurant strapped to a yellow guerney.
Almost every day I am in some way reminded of how thinly spread is the gift of life. Just beneath our warm skin, just behind that smile, just under your fingers stretched out on that keyboard is the reality of time and existence. Share your cookies. Hold hands crossing the street. It all will be over soon enough.
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