Valentines day is not a holiday I have given much attention in my life, but it is a great opportunity to be sure you have let those you love know it. I am not sure I’ve been so good at that. The giving and receiving of love or pretty much anything generous of heart is something I am learning these days. Thus I am taking the time today to say THANK YOU to everyone that is and has been there for me since my illness (and before in many cases). Your generously loving thoughts, prayers, and gifts of all kinds are appreciated more than I could ever show. What I am trying to say is, I love you back!!!
The Heart? Well it is a doodle style I have done since I was a child, and perhaps a good portrait of the complexity of love.
From the Heart,
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” -Dorothea Lange Thank You Steve!
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Ground Hog Day. We wage our weather forecast on the sight of a shadow by a rodent. It’s a silly holiday, and one that during the doldrums of mid winter, gives us hope. We might see 3 feet of snow on the ground and a thermometer reading 18 degrees F, but if Phil sees no…
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Happy February! I’ve made a decision. I make many, and most never get out of the holding pen. This one just made it out into the WORLD! I have had a really hard time getting back to any kind of consistent “work” (read life affirming force), or to begin anew. I keep making the typical…
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Whoa I almost forgot. I promised to post good news today. Good timing as usual, to get active and inspired as the holidays encroach. I don’t do a lot for the season of shopping, yet it seems the general craziness out there affects me regardless. Holidays aside I do have a lot to do!…
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How about both. I find it hard to believe, and hard to admit that this past Saturday marks one full year since my initial cancer diagnosis. One year ago I went for that dreadful MRI which had to be done in two segments because my back pain was so bad. My back pain was that…
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“Just do it.” “Start where you are.” “One step at a time.” And so it goes. I’ve been in this place before, heard all the wise quotes, and done the therapy. Still, I get stuck in my head, and the world turns gray while I am not paying attention. Sure, it is different this time…
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We have a parrot named Lucky (Lucky Lucy, Luck Luck, Luckster, Loosey Goosey etc. ). She is a tiny parrot, maybe 8 inches long with tail. We did not know it when she arrived in our lives, but she is a Green Cheek Conure. A somewhat squawky energetic thing she is fun and funny to…
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It was two whole months on Wednesday since my back surgery. It was also seven whole months since I first heard the word Cancer in relation to my life. Seven months I have lived with this, and I can say it has been a tediously long seven months at the same time as it has…
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Oh the drama! Today marks my final treatment from the Cyber Knife, a highly sophisticated robotic radiation therapy. There you see me standing in front of it, and to the right is the evil eye, aka laser aperture which focuses the radiation. That would be behind my head in shoulders in the other picture. It…
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