Sounds to me that a creative solution is truly in order. Our journalist did demonstrate the cost of his creative endeavour to expand our current understanding of the world. He also created a discussion that is interesting and personally relevant to me.

Due to several creative people I know and love, and a few more creative people that I've met, paths have been revealed to me that may likely enable me to beat a brain tumor that, left alone, will certainly end me. Creative solutions, ideas at first, were shared, imagined, revised, and acted on to instead give me, a 38 year-old, trained to teach middle school-aged students about math, science, and themselves, what I feel is the best chance at survival anyone in my place could possibly have.

Of course, the cost of this creativity will give me a nasty headache, some temporarily muddled thoughts, a small chance of reduced vision on my left side, but I will gladly accept the costs of this creativity. I also see some amazing possibilities for all people as we move forward as a society of people creatively trading problems, solutions, and agreeing on acceptable costs. Is that what this is really about?

I better get some sleep. It should help me negate some of the opportunity costs of tomorrow's initial decision.

Thanks again Mark.

Jeff