"All I've got is this one breath, and if I'm lucky, I get another..."

I'm on the email list for Berkeley's amazing Freight & Salvage. Sam Baker will be performing this Friday. I don't know much about him but his words cut straight through me. From the Freight's website:[Baker] was traveling on a train in Peru in 1986 when a bomb planted by the Shining Path killed seven of his fellow passengers and left him with a long, hard road back to reasonable health. "Life is a gift," he says. "I went through a lot of bitterness. A lot of anger. But those things are toxic. Gratitude for what remains is more helpful than resentment for what was lost. Ultimately, I came to understand that these days are wicked short and terribly beautiful. All I've got - no matter what I hold in my hands, drive around in, or put in the bank - all I've got is this one breath, and if I'm lucky, I get another."http://www.thefreight.org/sam-baker