I appreciate reading the thoughts and feelings you expressed in your blog on Sunday, June 6. For those of us wishing to share your journey, but can’t quite grasp what cancer is all about, your words and expressions of pain help us understand a little of what you are going through. Thank you for expressing it so eloquently. If warm wishes and kind words could fix what ails you, I know you would be cured today.

Hope you and Hayley had an enjoyable time together this weekend.

Warmest regards,
Helene Maraghy

The quiet moments are needful to me, as well. I need that grounding. Listening to the rain. Looking out of the window (although the view is never all that encouraging…still…), playing with the cats, sitting and watching the cats. My life now seems to always revolve around these two companions. This is partly due to my emerging nature as a hermit. I like animals better than most of the humans — in my town, I mean. I want desperately to reread Walden — but there is a fear that stops me; I might just isolate my own self further. For too many years my only companion was stress and I paid a heavy price for that. We can’t avoid it, but we do have more control over it than we realize.

I know you must, at times, feel like you are not doing anything useful. But you are. Just by being is useful. Being true to yourself and others and having the courage and honesty to share what you feel is incredibly useful. You are seeing everything from a new perspective now; it’s a good view you have.

love ya, L.

mikey