A long journey...

"The warm sun
beams through the clear air
Upon glistening leaves.
And the birds sweep
in long arcs
Over the green grass.
They seem to say,
"This might last forever!"
But it doesn't. "
-Fred Will
George Will has written many editorials over the years but few are as eloquent as the elegy to his mother found here:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2006/07/13/roses_in_winter

Losing my mind is one of the few things that truly scare me.