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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_o_h 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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| It's been a while since I've done anything productive, writing-wise. My best intention is to change that status in the new year. However.... One of the many inconveniences of not having my usual level of account (and it would be yours, as well.) has to do with email. I have kept, for several year, several hundred emails that I originally intended for a particular use. Today, I find that intended use unnecessary. So I have been "purging" several Mb's of email from my account. That includes several large groups of folders as well. Things in the past should, in my current thinking, stay there. Like so much unneeded luggage, they simply increase the difficulty of the journey. It's taken quite a while to arrive at this particular point of thinking in my life, and my world. No, it is not easy. It's just worth it. The only thing worse than being involuntarily imprisoned is to voluntarily be imprisoned. For 2016, I'm going to try to remain free. Freedom is not free: that is to say that freedom invariably comes with costs. Some of them are quite expensive. Still, I choose freedom. Which brings me to my second point of today. I got the Blogging Newsletter today, and it has a couple of really interesting tidbits in it. I am a writer. But, one of the joys that I have consistently found in my writing endeavors has been this Blog. I began this work as nothing more than a conversation with myself. It did not remain one very long. As with countless emails, the blog entries have stacked up. These days, it seems that the original intent has found a new presence here in this blog. I find no difficulty in that at all...save one. While purging my email, I had occasion to smile--a lot at the emails of support, argument, question/answer, and ongoing conversations I have had with multiple hundreds of WDC community members. It was surely a trip down memory lane, to be sure. I haven't done that with this blog, and am wondering if there would be any value in doing so. For me, the greatest value has always been the comments and conversations that found their beginning and, in some cases ending here. The years (so far) of this journey with you have sustained me in all of my five lives: physical, mental, emotional, financial (yes, that too), and spiritual. It's not always been easy, but it has always been worth it to me. Friendships remembered, activities begun and ended, fellow travelers completing their journey home, and those still on the journey are all part of the tapestry of this Blog. It will continue. I hope to see you here again soon. The echoes become louder, the silence sharper, and the deeds more interesting. As for me, and for this journey, I don't wish to miss a single one. In His Care, Budroe |
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