A Sad New Year

 (This is a non partisan political post)

I am an introvert, and I don't make friends easily.  But there is one woman I could have wished to have known.  

Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Why?

Because true friends are hard to find, and I htink she would have been an amazing friend.  Here is a post by a woman who was her friend.

When I found out, about 9pm last night, that she had passed away after many long battles with her health, I went to Facebook, and found that my wall had blown up, with so many of my Facebook friends sharing the news of her death.

Maybe we thought she would live forever.  She was the Notorious RGB, after all, the woman who fought cancer after cancer, underwent surgery after surgery, chemo, radiation, and yet would show up at the Supreme Court to do her work, without fail.

Justice Ginsberg had wanted to retire, but never did.  At 87, she was still working when her body finally gave out.  She was finally taken by pancreatic cancer, the cancer that has taken three of my relatives.

People called her a hummingbird.  She only weighed 85 lb towards the end of her life, but what an 85 lb it was.  Hummingbirds are birds of endless energy, gems in small packages.  When we see one in our gardens, we gasp in awe, because...because we know we are in the presence of something special.

It is said only the most righteous die on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. 

Now RGB is owned by history.  There are some who feel some of her decisions were pure evil.  I am not one of them.

May her memory be a blessing.