The Laughing Wolf

A Glass Hoisted

Over in the comments on Sgt. Hook’s excellent site, I joined into the general celebration and said that I might just have to break out the 30-year-old scotch. I did, because it was a day worth celebrating. Two pieces of scum are gone from the Earth, and even better, Jessica Lynch made it home. While I did drink to the shades of Uday and Qusay, in a toast I will not repeat (Buffy, I'm sorry you didn't get them either), my real wish was for Jessica.

What is to come will not be easy, and indeed some of it may be worse simply because that is often the way it is. The physical can sometimes be the easy part, dealing with yourself and all the changes is much more demanding. So I raise my glass of Cadenhead’s Chairmans Stock 1970 Speyside Glenfarclas to her, and ask that the light shine on her and her path in the days ahead. And I give thanks that she is indeed home, where healing can truly being.

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