This Week

Walking
This past week, I walked with John and Kip and Courtney and Sue C.

I walked to Gilda's Club, and attended a couple different "cancer support communities" (groups).

When I first went to Gilda's Club (named after comedienne Gilda Radner from "Saturday Night Live", author of It's Always Something, and who died of ovarian cancer in 1989), I was asked to complete a questionnaire. One of the questions was about how my life has changed since the cancer diagnosis.

So I wrote an answer, but I continued to think.
I do not have an old life and a new-after-diagnosis life.
I would say, every day is new and different.

Sure, a cancer diagnosis brings up the subject of death. But it is a subject everyone has in common at some point, and no one controls how long we live or when we die.

But if we did, when would we choose? After our family is grown? Settled with jobs? Married? With grandchildren? When we have a relationship with the grandchildren? When we have reached a certain age or accomplished certain tasks?

And how much suffering would we experience or observe along the way?

Who knows? So I am glad to enjoy the days and moments (and whatever).
And I am thankful for the humming.
I am wondering if someone prayed specifically for humming, as every now and then, I just hum little tunes.
Thanks!


For Better or For Worse
The comic strip story line, For Better or For Worse, ended this past weekend. We first noticed it about the time we were starting our family, and the comic strip family seemed to be growing up about the same time as ours.

It closed with a wedding and with the bride and groom visiting the sick grandfather and care-giver step-grandmother. She explains "We made a commitment - just as you did today. And although it is not easy, this is all part of loving someone - with all your heart.. and with all you have to give!"

I am considering what body part seems to work for an analogy.
Maybe commitment is the heart of love, or the brain of love, or the teeth of love.
Anyway, commitment seems to be key to keep love living.