I was fleeced by Madoff

Her last paragraph articulates what I strive for since this summer when so many things began to go wrong.
"On this side of the loss, there is the necessity -- the urgency-- of staying in the moment. This breath. This step. This splash of sun. The money I lost will never come back. But if I wander into fear -- what if my husband or I get sick and we can't pay the medical bills, what if there is an accident and we can't work, what will we do when we get old -- I'm lost, too."

I had an old man tell me years ago, Jack "you are rich if you have all that you need" So it is pure greed that made madoff possible, and many times in the future, as greed over comes just being rich. we always want MORE.