Lucy in the SKY

Lucy Liu holding her breasts close

"Life is about learning how to die, how to let go, and hold on to what is really important." said Patti Davis, daughter of President Reagan,  speaking of her father's debilitating Alzheimer's  his care, what it meant to her and her mother to care for him, and his eventual death. As much as I hold this president in contempt for his legacy his death pained me. He didn't need to die this way fading with less and less memory of who he was, what he'd done and accomplished in life. How he loved in life was profound and noteworthy. His devotion and love for and towards his wife the whole of their life together stood distant from the political and social views and actions he took that slid the nation into strange places far from the ideals of the Americans.

But, isn't love stronger than death? If we are to be judged is love part of the measurements of our lives in the balance? You can't stand on ceremony, or can you?

Patti Davis is no longer a news item. I will always ponder her shared insights during a taped interview in her father's last stages with the sense that sometimes it takes a lifetime to be able to say just one thing, learn the one thing you are remembered for long after you are gone from this planet!

- Gregory E. Woods 10.5.13

Lucy Liu