Thanks for all your good wishes. Here's an appropriate message I got today-everyone on this site "packs a good parachute".
>A good message for us all - Have a great day & thanks for helping pack my
> >parachute!
> >
> > Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat
> >missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb
> >ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6
> >years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now
> >lectures on lessons learned from that experience!
> >One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a
> >man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet
> >fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot
> >down!"
> >"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.
> >"I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in
> >surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it
> >worked !" Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I
> >wouldn't be here today."
> >
> >Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb
> >says, "I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a
> >white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many
> >times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are
> >you?' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just
> >a sailor." Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at a long
> >wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and
> >folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate
> >of someone he didn't know.
> >
> >Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's packing your
> >parachute?"Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it
> >through the day. He also points out that he needed many kinds of
> >parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory -- he needed
> >his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute,
> >and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before
> >reaching safety.
> >
> >Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what
> >is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you,
> >congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them,
> >give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. As you go
> >through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your
> >parachutes.
> >
> >I am sending you this as my way of thanking you for your part in
> >packing my parachute. And I hope you will send it on to those who have
> >helped pack yours!
> >
> >Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us
> >without writing a word. Maybe this could explain it: When you are very
> >busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do -- you forward
> >jokes. And to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still
> >important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you
> >get? A forwarded joke.
> >
> >So my friend, next time when you get a joke, don't think that
> >you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've been
> >thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted
> >to send you a smile, just helping you pack your parachute
> >
> >