The Grieving Process
Day 26, Melancholy? Poem, Someone’s Spouse is Dying; Song on Facebook
okay……Day 26….I am doing my best to Not get washed over with the same Melancholy that happens at the end of August and returns with the end of September….I am trying to stay in the present and not the future or the past…. but NOT SO EASY….especially if it is something I am accustomed to…
Read MoreMindfulness Meditation, A Beginning Again
Mindfulness Meditation Why am I posting this here and why post this on a cancer blog site, Blog For A Cure? Of all places, I think the site that has people living with cancer is the most important place for this. I strongly believe that both caregivers and those with cancer, and those suffering loss,…
Read MoreSolemness, And Haunting Images From September 11, 2001
September 11, 2017 Some stories need to be told again and again, in spite of the emotional upheaval they cause in those telling the story. I want those who did not live through it to have some sense, some taste, some bodily inclination of what the experience feels like, some embodiment of the intensity of…
Read MoreDay 4 And 5, Bike Ride
Day 4 day 4 of my month…. 11.4 miles on the bike (nothing for a real biker, but I am far from that) and I made it back home… a big deal after my heart started asking some serious questions after the first serious climb….god you never realize the grades until you do the road…
Read MoreDay 1 Of My Birthday Month
DAY 1, My Month, Amending Song And Prayer I am on a rainbow adventure… but before my adventure I am rewriting the night time prayer the one that says if I die before I wake you know it starts with now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to…
Read MoreAs Day 31 Came To A Close, Puff The Magic Dragon
I wrote this at the end of Thursday, August 31, 2017 so…as this day begins to wind down… I know it is not over YET…but it IS winding down…. we know it is completely wound down when I start to fall asleep doing whatever it is I am doing…that could be at the computer….it could…
Read MoreDay 31, A Familiar Melancholy
This was prompted by the person who bought our old house on Long Island. She and Emilee stayed in touch on Facebook. She communicates with me once in a while. She posted a picture of a vine in her backyard that never has any of its small pink pretty petalled (sp?) flowers after mid-May. Well,…
Read MoreDay 29, Something Washing Over Me
Day 29, Something Is Washing Over Me (Authors note: I tried not to edit this too much, so some sentences may be long winded, like the thoughts, running together, sometimes amok, with feeling shooting off in different directions.) Texas is getting pummeled with rain and flooding from, of all names, Hurricane Harvey. Harvey was my…
Read MoreMishmosh, Summary Of A Day
Mishmosh, Summary Of A Day, And More Mishmosh…means a real mix of stuff. What you have here…..lol…reminds me of a line from a movie…which one? Not sure…you can help… I thought it was a movie with Rod Steiger and …name…black actor playing a lawyer in the south… and the sheriff says…what we have here, is…
Read MoreBirthday Month Day Twenty, Thoughts On Aging
Birthday Month, Day 20 This is Emilee’s birthday month. I post every day on her facebook page. Her birthday would have been August 24. We are exactly two weeks apart, so it is always on the same day of the week, hers and mine. I thought this post might have a little interest…
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