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Ladybugs
Read more: LadybugsToday was a beautiful day. We were able to finally reunite these two young warrior girls together and revisit their parallel journeys with lymphoma this summer/fall/winter. What a mighty love I could feel among our families. We are neighbors, after all. We have seen each other sporadically at the neighborhood pool in past summers. Our…
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Interconnectedness
Read more: Interconnectedness“I opposed subjective to objective, imagination to realism. I thought that having gone so deeply into my own feelings and dramas I could never again reach objectivity and knowledge of others. But now I know that any experience carried out deeply to its ultimate leads you beyond yourself into a larger relation to the experience…
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Metamorphosis
Read more: Metamorphosis“Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and…
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The Sweetness in Real Time
Read more: The Sweetness in Real TimeMy daughter and one of her best friends, who happens to be a boy Caring transcends imaginary social boundaries that we create. Today, after my daughter’s appointment with her oncologist (a check up, which revealed fantastic blood counts and all things wonderful still), we headed to the art store (I’m beginning to think this art…
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The Sweetness In Life
Read more: The Sweetness In LifeI think of all the sweetness I have in my life that helps me stumble through it and I hope that I share enough of it because life is rather bitter without it. Sometimes the mother in me can see those who need it and do not even realize it. from: Sweetness By Stephen Dunn…
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Blessed Are Those…….
Read more: Blessed Are Those…….“You are blessed,” I often hear, especially recently. But I think that can be misconstrued because it implies that those who suffer more are not blessed. And what runs through my mind is that there could easily be a better person than myself that has a much harder life. And I’m not above anyone else…
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Always and Evermore
Read more: Always and EvermoreCancer is insidious. It wants to thrive and remain and continue to haunt you like a bad dream. I knew this back in August when I prayed in vain that her results would not be cancer. It is mentally challenging in the first few years for a survivor, lucky that one is, to not dwell…
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Keep Paying It Forward
Read more: Keep Paying It ForwardI took my son and his friend to Half Price Books so they could spend some Christmas money during the after Christmas holiday sale (everything was 20% off). They were having fun searching for albums….vinyl is making such a huge comeback…..good thing we held onto some albums and a very cool vintage turntable for all…
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Illustrious Life
Read more: Illustrious LifeLast night at dusk, on a walk by the lake, I looked one direction and the sky was forming pink and blue stripes. The other way was a brilliant indigo blue. Along the edge of the horizon a subtle shade of apricot formed. Within the time it took for me to cross the bridge (and…