Page 23 - Big Pharma and the Constant Gardener

“LIFE IS TOO PRECIOUS A

THING TO PERMIT ITS

DEVALUATION BY LIVING...

WITHOUT HOPE.” (HAVEL)

Full Circle Ranch – In this clean great room with a cathedral ceiling

filled with the morning sunshine, it was still only a vision – that the

room be filled with fresh-cut flowers from a garden outside the front
door (“Dad’s Garden”), music,

books and reading material

for Mother and Dad, jokes

and story-telling, Mother’s
poetry, family biography,

journaling, aesthetics, the

aroma of nutritious food

being slowly cooked, friends
and family gathered around

the table, and – for the rest

of their days – maintaining a space for Mother and Dad which

would be filled with life, rather than abandonment and despair.