Day of the Still Boulder, 41st of Hagwinter, 525 M.E. (Deneb): The kid sister finally came home from the hospital today after completing her cancer surgery and recovery. She's still in pretty rough shape - a feeding tube to her stomach, a tracheostomy tube still in her throat, her jaw still wired shut, and will need care and assistance by her husband for some period of time. But the good news is that the cancer was successfully removed.

In the stark light of the reality of her life-and-death experience, other events seem sore of irrelevant.