What brought you joy today?

Dinner with friends at a wonderful Mexican restaurant I just discovered hidden in the canyon. Taco Tuesday! It has been around since the 50s yet no one I know had heard of it. We sat out in the most beautiful huge back patio with a lush garden that includes beautiful trees sprinkled with lights, 3 man-made waterfalls down a rock hillside and a creek that has running water in the winter. Delicious food, great service and soooo peaceful. The evening weather was perfect as California weather tends to be. There are often guests' horses tied up out front in the gravel parking lot with a few tables for the riders out front. The drive there takes me on a brief getaway out of suburbia and into the countryside down a winding road lined with green trees and an occasional country-style retail building or ranch. What a great find! I am slowly but surely introducing every friend I have to this wonderful hidden gem. So far, it's a hit with everyone!

Grateful for the breath of life in me !

Driving to work and feeling like my old self - was beautiful outside and I just felt joyful and blessed. I didn’t feel fatigued. A few hours of work then a couple hours at the infusion center.

My daughter-in-law sent me a photo of my three year old grandson walking the dog.

Doing an exercise class this morning 🌅

My personal cancer meditation for Mondays:

❝A new week is full of new possibilities; don't miss any of them because you're looking to the past.❞

(Photo: canoeing at 7 am today in an Ontario lake.)

I helped a man with MDS , I gave him 3 units of blood and platelets and he left feeling better.

Today I walked 3 miles to my co-working space, moved a few hundred pounds of gravel and paving stones in the back yard, and spent 1/2 hour at the weight bench. Next week I'll be at the family cottage, getting up at dawn every day to canoe solo around the lake with the herons and loons.

This sure ain't our grandparents' stage-4 cancer.

Waking up!

Today is the first day I'm medically cleared to ride my bicycle again. It's my favorite exercise. I got up at 6 and was out on the bike by 6:15 (spent the weekend getting it ready). I rode to my favorite path in the woods, then to a smaller town where I stopped for coffee, had a brief chat with a stranger (my goal is to talk to someone new at least 3x a week), then rode back home. My legs are already sore from not having ridden in three months (have walked and hiked, but the muscles are slightly different) but it was SO worth it!