Yes, the news about Carrie is true. I got into a little set-to with a former dear reader who has turned into quite the jerk - on Facebook of course, where else. I have grown weary of the new born and bred Facebook cliche "Enough 2016" or "2016 just stop" or any variation thereof when someone dies (or other things that happen that people don't like) - like we haven't had years in which a lot of people died and as if no one will be dying in 2017. The wonderful George S. Irving died a few days ago at ninety-four and people are posting how devastated they are - I accept that from people who knew and worked with him, although those people don't do that, they celebrate his spirit and life, that's what those people do. It's the people who never knew him that do the other stuff, and I occasionally post about it, saying they should just be celebrating anyone who has lived to that kind of ripe old age. Carrie Fisher did not live to a ripe old age - THAT is sad, THAT is devastating. But this dear reader clearly left us at some point (don't even remember when and don't really care) because of me - he joins a list of about five others who apparently think I'm some kind of huge putz and awful person. I used to be upset by it - not any more. We are all who we are, and our deeds and the life lived are all that's important - not someone's bad opinion of who we are because he/she may have been rubbed the wrong way. I think good always outweighs whatever bad people may perceive, but the bad perception usually has more to do with the person feeling it than the person it's directed at.
