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We all have photos of old rellies like this one.  My grandmother 2nd from the left, and her 3 sisters that she was very close to all her life.  I can say all her life, as she outlived every one of them, and 4 brothers and one baby, and her parents. Parents are part of the natural order, but you don't think of losing your brothers and sisters until you are very old, that is if you think about it at all.  At age 95, her last brother died and the final year of her life was very sad, she had outlasted them all in a race she didn't want to win.  She was an excellent athlete in her youth but this was a race that she didn't enter, and didn't think about until it was really too late.  Not that it would have changed anything, and with her  nature she would have voluntarily taken on the  mantle of grieving 7 siblings rather than have one of them do the same. This year, 2016, has seen most of the world suffer what she did.  Cumulative grieving.  I...

I've been pondering this question for the past few months. The difference between the two important words that we bandy around but don't always know the meaning of. Perception is such an individual thing isn't it?  I might perceive a piece of fabric to be blue, others will perceive it to be green.  We can both be right, and we can both argue, or we can both agree.  The perception is very clearly within the eye of the beholder.  The dictionary meaning gives two options.  The ability to see, hear or perceive through the senses.  The alternative meaning is the way in which something is interpreted.  Art for example!  "Stunningly beautiful!" to the first person, "What a pile of junk" to the second.  Same piece of visual information, totally different perceptions. Reality is the actual, the middle ground.  Nobody can deny the fabric is fabric, the label may state it is blue, or green, but the person who is viewing it may not see it that w...