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Happy New Year!

It is 12:05am. I couldn’t sleep so decided to get up and enjoy the popping of firecrackers in the neighborhood as people celebrate the beginning of 2011. The firecrackers are still going off.

I feel very peaceful; I hope others do too. The date is now 1-1-11. I hope it is a good and healthy year for everyone.

Soon I’m going to share a poem on this site that I wrote four years ago after my mother’s death in 2006, and I don’t want to forget to do that.

But not now. Now is for enjoying this moment and reveling in it. I was not supposed to live this long, and I am here…and am grateful for every day as well. Welcome, 2011.

Peace to you.

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A wink in time

Yesterday was Sunday. I woke up exhausted. Managed to read the Sunday paper. Cliff made pancakes for lunch, and we got the dishes cleaned up.

Then I just sat still at the kitchen table, head resting on my hand, and told Cliff I needed to go upstairs and work on some art homework my teacher had assigned. He looked at me and said, “No, you need to rest.”

He helped me upstairs and tucked me into bed, and there I slept for three hours. It was the best three hours ever. I was so tired.

When I finally woke up, Cliff and I put together dinner. Then I moseyed on up to my art studio (aka, my grown daughter’s bedroom) and worked on my art homework.

I will finish the assignment this morning before my IV infusion appointment.

Thank goodness for perceptive spouses who help us set aside our self-imposed schedules and get the rest we need when we need it.

Chemo round six begins tomorrow.

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Embrace

Universal source of love, hold me in your arms and rock me.
Extend my consciousness to the far reaches of time and space.
Connect my heart to every living being on Earth.

Enlarge my embrace to all of humanity.
I hear their moans and grieve with them.
I gather their joys and dance with them.
I sense their silence and sit with them.

Cradle us all in your compassion and your
        incomprehensible love.
                                                   

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