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What brought you joy today?
If you've been living with cancer for a while, you know it's not all gloom and doom. Where did you find joy today? I'll start:
1. Working in my garden.
2. Meeting my daughter for tea.
3. Home-made pizza for dinner.
4. My spouse (always).
5. Some interesting online discussions.
6. Rereading a good novel.
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My garden
My animals
My friends
My family
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4 Reactionslearning new poetry
boardwalking
mexican festival - flamenco dancers & live music
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3 ReactionsLooking forward to another fine week 🙂
My wife, Suzy, and I travel each summer in our travel trailer to escape Scottsdale's summer heat. We awoke this morning in Five Islands Provincial Park in Nova Scotia. We took these photos when we arrived last night.
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2 Reactions@stephenrfleury Welcome to Canada, and enjoy your visit!
Grabbed a java & people watched in the mall.
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3 Reactions@zenren14 Honestly, that's my favourite thing when I'm travelling.
Other people are welcome to line up and stare at mountains or cathedrals: I'm happiest sitting in a sidewalk café or a window seat with a hot tea, watching the pulse of a new city move by.
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2 ReactionsI do not miss my appointments with the medical team and follow their directive but, I do not think about cancer and I am living my life enjoying every day. It has been the same for the las 11 years.
I am glad you're doing something similar.
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2 Reactions@northoftheborder
Right!!
Too peoply.
Avoid line-ups.
Knowing your boundaries.
I need my space.
Imperative to take a B-line to thee Loo.
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1 Reaction@zenren14 Yep. The best thing you can do with a bucket list is put it in a bucket and carry it out to the trash. I've never seen the point of gaping at things just to check them off a list. 🙂 The best moments travelling are the unexpected and unplanned ones.
In 2021, after my de-novo stage 4 diagnosis, when I was paralysed in a hospital bed and thinking I'd never walk again and live only a few more years, my thoughts weren't "I wish I'd made it to see Machu Picchu/walked the Camino/visited the Great Wall of China/hiked the Grand Canyon" or anything like that. They were "I wish I could go back home and walk down the street and buy groceries again, or sit in the local pizza restaurant with my spouse, or go to the family cottage." It turned out people who haven't faced death close up don't know what they're talking about when they drone on about "if you were going to die tomorrow...": there are no regrets about big headline-level things; the little things *are* the big things.
p.s. I was incredibly fortunate, and contrary to expectations in 2021, I can do all those "little things" again now.