Much Madness is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson

February 25, 2007


Much Madness is divinest Sense-
To a discerning Eye-
Much Sense - the starkest Madness-
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail-
Assent- and you are sane-
Demur- you’re straightway dangerous-
And handled with a Chain-

1862

Pearly Kings and Queens

article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearly_King

Image:Pearlykingandqueen.jpg

Very elaborate and beautiful outfits.

The person who took this picture says:  "Henry croft is my great great grandad from his daughter violet crofts line".  The picture is released to the public domain.

Response from Lauren re: MS/tysabri

Hi Lauren:  For some reason, the blog’s spaminator blocked your comments so I will post them here.  I think it is important that Canadians with MS know about tysabri and its availability here as it was recently given the go ahead by Health Canada.  Best regards.

Author  : Lauren
URL     :
http://lauren-livingwithms-aolcomlglbgl2003.blogspot.com/
Body:
Thank you Ella for posting links not only to my Blog, but
also to the website (of which I am a proud member)
http://www.MSPatientsForChoice.org/. Some of us that are
members of the website  worked very hard to voice our views
at the FDA AC Tysabri hearings in March \’06, in an effort
to bring Tysabri back to MS sufferers that want and need it.

Thanks again!  Best wishes…Lauren :)

This week in The Squamish Chief - two local deaths linked to heroin

Top stories for the week of Feb 23 - Mar 1 
 Two local deaths linked to heroinFeature Story
  Addictions outreach workers needed, says Community Services
Sylvie Paillard
spaillard@squamishchief.com

"Two young women are dead, a man was feared dead and at least two more residents were hospitalized last week in heroin-related incidents. Twenty-six-year-old Niomi Joanette died Sunday (Feb. 11), and Angie Brown, also in her twenties, died Wednesday (Feb. 14) after suffering severe health problems exacerbated by heroin use. A third man was hospitalized and a fourth man was missing and initially feared dead in other heroin-related incidents last week. Several days later, on Monday (Feb. 19), a fifth young man was hospitalized after heroin use."

the rest of the article can be found at http://www.squamishchief.com/madison/WQuestion.nsf/SCallstories?OpenView

Squamish has a population of around 15,000 and such tragedies impact the lives of many.  One of the things I find confusing is that because the two women who died had other health issues there was no public health warning or announcement in the community regarding the potential dangers of the heroin available.  If there was ‘contaminated’ aspirin on the market that killed once person there would be a public health information blitz even if the person who died had other health problems.  Very strange to me.