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Timmie, you misconstrue again.. I have no belief in Mother Nature... she is simply a Force to be reckoned with here on Earth.. I am not interested in belief, yours, mine or any others..[they are just mental constructs that one personally identifies with] I am interested in the Unconditional Absolute Truth, Reality...and the Art of Living..

6 mos in the Amazon that's good brother, yes, but I have spent the better part of 60 yrs in Mother Natures womb, fact.. , 30 yrs surfing year round All conditions and 50 yrs of climbing vertical rock walls across the entire NA continent.. couple hundred 1st ascents[just a few Big Ones] shore to shore.. from Yosemite's El Capitan in every season, to the Baja's El Gran Trono Blanco, winter ascents in Zion.. skiing back and forth across the Sierra Nevada's Wild and wonderful back country from Lone Pine to Lake Tahoe for most winters the last 20+ yrs..

Those are just facts as is the fact I have been and am Blessed to continue.. I give Thanks every time I rope up or strap on the skis or paddle out.. don't know If I will see another year or another week.. probably will, but none the less I am going for it till the very End.. Death is my close friend.. nothing to fear.. like Life also a close friend.. and nothing to fear..

Regarding Down Syndrome well the way I see it.. thats is a special state a soul chooses to experience for a multitude of possible reasons... its not some random bad roll of the genetic dice..

Lastly, don't want to take total Responsibility for your current state..? You don't have to.... no.. but Maybe if at some point you will want to explore that deeply the Universe will give you that opportunity...

Keep smiling, keep Digging Deep, physical death is coming...ain't no Big Thing

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Curt Sanders: You have had an active life as have I. I ran marathons and exercised every day. I ate right. But shit still happens.

Death doesn't scare me. Ending up in a nursing home terrifies me. The Art of Living is what I'm interested in as well. There is no Art of Living in a Memory Care Center.

My wife and I spent three years visiting her parents in Memory Care. That is a trip to the seventh level of Hell in Dante's Inferno.

Debra's parents were SoCal health nuts. And yet they both got Alzheimer's and ended up in Memory Care.

I once was like you. I enjoyed every day and thought life was kinda fair. If I took care of myself, I'd be okay. Nope.

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