Pilgrim Farmer John, our good friend and Major Caminohead from Iowa wrote this comment on the nurses quieting us down at the treatment center yesterday:
“Party on, Jarhead! Some things we need to be proud of, like having the insouciance to be having such a good time at cancer-crunching therapy to get a (mild) slapdown by the nurses. Yep, you and I are going to get along just fine, Amigo.”

So, yea, I had to make my way to the big fat dictionary to corral “insouciance”, especially if I had this thing. In my mind I thought our good buddy had spelled insolence wrong. Insolence is showing rudeness and having an arrogant lack of respect. That’s why I had to look it up because that wasn’t us, hopefully.

“Insouciance – casual lack of concern; indifference.” As in Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn or Alfred E. Neumann, the king of “What, Me Worry?”. So this is where several millions of dollars of high tech cancer treatment has taken me? Maybe I should have stayed in the early 1960’s and read more Mad Magazine and seriously soaked up this good stuff? Anyone want to get me a Neumann T-shirt for Christmas? Just a gift idea, no pressure, size large.

OK, so the lighter side of cancer coming at you. Well here it is just about time to get up for Thursday. Maybe if I built a fire I wouldn’t be freezing my butt! What me worry? See you, insouciant on, Felipe.