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 |   My journey through (and beyond) the valley with Cancer as my companion. |
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Dear Friend: This is not a Blog about writing! (I already have one of those.) This is a blog about a journey I am taking with illness. I have recently been diagnosed with Cancer. My goal is honest therapy as I progress through, and beyond this new reality in my life. I hope that, somewhere along the way you will find some words that will help you too. While this is, in fact, an interactive Blog, I hope that you will scroll slowly down this page. For you see, the front of this Blog IS my journey. The entries are conversations that are held along the journey.Yes, there is a lot on it--before actually getting to the Blog entries. But, I hope that by the objects and words which appear before the Blog itself, you might come to understand just a little bit about me, and my journey, and some truly amazing friends who have agreed to journey with me. I hope that you, too, will choose to accompany me on my walk--through the Valley. I invite you to join me, and discover the wondrous truths, meet some truly amazing people, and share those "memorable" moments this journey will undoubtedly present. Come along, won't you? In His Care, ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Would you like to help me help others? I found this amazing organization, and I am proud to be a sponsor. I hope you will check it out. It's called The Network For Good.  ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "RISUS OMNIA - INCRUMENTUS PER DEDECUS - SAPIENTIA PER DAMNUM" ("Every thing is funny - Growth through humiliation - Wisdom through loss") ~Leunig~ The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~Helen Keller~ "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." ~Virginia Woolf~ ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "There is strength in truth." ~The Barton Family Crest~ ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller, American social activist, public speaker and author (1880-1968) I have moved the list of my thanks for those who have helped to make this little Blog so very special. I hope that you will take a moment to read the list, growing every day, and let these fellow travellers along this journey know that you appreciate the contributions they make to our walk together.
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Please feel free to click on the Blog Rings icon below to be transported to some of the very best of the Best Bloggers around WDC. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** If you are new to WDC, or to our Blogging community, I highly recommend the monthly edition of "The Blogville News". Feel free to click below, and let Scarlett   know that a Blogger sent ya!Hey! We've started a Christian's Blog Ring on WDC. Click on the logo, and join us! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Budroe
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| I'm not sure what this means. How does one "live" at 60? I've not been here before. According to many, I wasn't supposed to be here. Yet, here I am. More than nine years beyond expectations, I am re-arranging priorities, opening or closing activities that consumed time in 2015. Having a birthday on the last day of a year can be a complex proposition. Not only is it the end of one year, and the beginning of another...but it is also the end of one year and the beginning of another. See what I mean? Complex, indeed. But for this archetypical Capricorn, I wouldn't have it any other way. I'll be away from computers for the remainder of this day, and tomorrow as well. I wanted to get this idea down before I change direction and live in the physical world for the rest of today. I want, on both counts, to leave a very large inventory of life, and living behind me. But, I also want that inventory to have some bit of demonstrable value, as well. Having lived it, surely there can be found some value for having done so beyond the simple ticking of a clock somewhere. Having made that decision, looking forward is something I'd like to see as a very large blank slate, with countless opportunities. Refusing resolutions, I am much more interested today with intentions. That list will come tomorrow. At least, that is my intention. For today, I am going to take a bit of a large step, and get out into the living, physical world of friends and community where I live. Stay safe, well and happy. We've shared a lot of journey this year. I kind of like the idea of a celebration just to recognize survival on, through, and with the journey in 2015. As SM has said, most of it won't be missed at all. Some of it, though, will be missed for the rest of my life. That's only appropriate. Intend to be happy for today, and for tomorrow. The world gives us a little free spaced to do so. It's a holiday, after all. Bridge what has been with what is yet to come with joy. Joy is, after all, an intentional act. Happy 2016 to you all, with appreciation, love, peace and joy sufficient. In His Care, Budroe |
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