One of my favorite quotes is from a poem of Stephen Dunne’s, “Sixty,” which is about turning sixty, that states:
As Garcia Lorca may have written: some people
forget to live as if a great arsenic lobster
could fall on their heads at any moment.
In the spirit of that thought, here’s an interesting news item… (from SFGate’s day in pictures)
A ride he’ll never forget: Ben Carpenter, a 21-year-old Kalamazoo, Mich., man, survived a harrowing four-mile ride at 50 mph when his motorized wheelchair became stuck in the grille of this semi. He had been crossing a street in Paw Paw when the light changed, and the rig snagged the chair’s handlebars, unbeknownst to the trucker. Motorists called 911, and a pair of undercover cops pulled over the driver. Carpenter was not hurt.
It does seem that weird and miraculous things happen everyday since I have experienced several in my life and they have happened to my family.