Touched

I suppose like most people nowadays, I find life often moves too fast to stop and enjoy it sometimes. Today I was lucky, I had half the day off to take care of some stuff at home and go to a meeting. I decided to go on my bike, it has been ages since I biked anywhere, and it was great. I had forgotten how nice it is to bike around on a nice day like this, you just notice so much more of what's going on around you. That said, I also tend to be touched so much more by events, stories, people. Like when I read this story in today's Times, about Iris Chang, an historian who killed herself after writing a book on the atrocities of the Rape of Nanking.