I don’t know him like you do, JPod — though I will always love him for the kind note he sent a dorky teenager (ahem, me) long ago — but I’ve always had the impression that while he could very easily hate life for it’s injustice, he instead inspires he’ll never know how many people faced with similar disease. It says something about what good there is among us that we can fight and inspire in the face of such trials.

That said, damn cancer. It’s a refrain we’re all sick of. Some in deeper and more enduring ways that others.

It seems like every day now there’s a dominant news story that reminds me to pray yet again for Cathy Seipp’s daughter, Maia. God bless so many of you.