I Wish You Enough!!

FYI....I wish all of you...enough! (I know its not new...but nothing like a refresher of a good word!!)


I WISH YOU ENOUGH

Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said "I love you and I wish you enough." The daughter replied, "Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom." They kissed and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and needed to cry.

I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking "Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?". "Yes, I have, "I replied. "Forgive me for asking but why is this a forever good-bye?". "I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral" she said.

"When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say 'I wish you enough'. May I ask what that means?". She began to smile. "That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone". She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. "When we said 'I wish you enough' we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them". Then turning toward me she shared the following as if she were reciting it from memory --

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear
much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

She then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them. Send this to the people you will never forget and remember to send it back to the person who sent it to you.
If you don't send it to anyone it may mean that you are in such a hurry that you have forgotten your friends.

TAKE TIME TO LIVE..

To all my friends and loved ones, I WISH YOU ENOUGH!!!

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New HIV Strain Leapt to Humans from Gorillas: Study

Agence France Presse (08.02.09)

French researchers have identified a human case of a new HIV subtype
that is closely related to gorilla simian immunodeficiency virus
(SIVgor). Until now, HIV strains in humans have been linked to similar
viruses in chimpanzees.

In 2004, soon after moving to Paris, a Cameroon-born woman was tested
for HIV. While HIV-1 diagnostic tests detected infection, the subtype
could not be determined. Her virus was genetically decoded and
computer-analyzed for comparison with other known HIV and SIV types.
The woman's infection was a "significant" match for SIVgor.

The new subtype shows no evidence of recombination with other HIV-1
lines, and it is distinct from the three previously known HIV-1 groups
M, N, and O, said the authors of the report. As such, the researchers
proposed designating the newly detected virus HIV-1 group P.

"The most likely explanation for its emergence is gorilla-to-human
transmission of SIVgor," wrote the report's lead author, Jean-
Christophe Plantier of the national HIV referencing laboratory at the
Rouen Hospital Center, and colleagues.

"For the time being, it's the closest source," said Marie Leoz, a co-
author also affiliated with the laboratory. "What is still quite
difficult, though, is to date when the first transmission of the virus
took place, because there are still very few gorilla strains that are
available."

SIV could have been transmitted to humans through a bite or through
blood exposure while butchering the animals for food, scientists
hypothesize. The prevalence of HIV-1 group P among humans is not
known, but it is probably rare, said Leoz. The infected woman has no
AIDS symptoms, is receiving treatment, and has a stable viral load and
CD4 count, she added.

The full report, "A New Human Immunodeficiency Virus Derived from
Gorillas," was published ahead of print in Nature Medicine (2009;doi:
10.1038/nm.2016).