The energy circling around the world is palpable as the wait continues
to unveil the next president of the USA.
I could speak about this subject for hours,
but I promised not to be political on my blog,
which is a personal commitment I often want to break.
But not today. Instead, I will continue to do post Guest Posts
in celebration of my blog being fifteen
years old this month.
Please, share your story,
or a poem, or a favorite recipe, something about who you are…
your story is what I want to hear I know some
of you are shy, or feel you are at a low point or have burdens that
prevent you to want to share.
I understand that after fifteen years of blogging
there have been moments in my life where I have felt uncertain
or have had that intensity or low points that
I have wanted not to share and often I did not share them.
Though whatever I shared I felt your tangible support and more often than not
the common thread that holds humanity together we are more alike
then we think we are.
I hope you will share your story or a part of it on my blog.
For the many of you who have asked about my brother
and who have prayed for him THANK YOU.
My brother has terminal cancer in his pancreas and liver.
Those are hard words to type let alone be told.
He lives with this gnawing knowledge, plus a
toxic life-supporting chemotherapy every day since January.
This morning he called to tell me,
"Please tell your readers THANK YOU for their prayers.
I feel their strength, their healing, I feel them and
am thankful that they are praying for me."
Don't stop.
Your prayers, good intentions, love,
friendship, thoughts, messages…
are ripples
from one heart to another
they are needed
my brother leans
into that grace.
Gabriel (sixteen months) Chelsea and Martin are living with us as you know during
the French lockdown. Their being with us is a gift. (and extra cooking smile!)
The innocence of children is a healing source,
a glimpse into how we absorb and become
what we gather along the way.
The other day I asked Gabriel if he wanted to take a nap?
He said NO.
I asked him if he wanted candy (he doesn't know that word)?
He said NO.
I asked him if he wanted to go to sleep?
He said NO.
I asked him if he wanted to jitterbug?
He said NO.
I asked him if he loved Va (that's me) and he giggled,
and said NO.
WHAT?!? I cried,
Then I chased him and gave him the biggest squeeze.
He loves this new game.
My other news is that I have had a cold that
has haunted me for nearly two weeks.
A fever for two days, running nose, hacking cough, fatigue, massive
cold sore, scratched my eye with my mask that
then became infected (I look like a monster maybe
that is why Gabriel says NO?) Gabriel had a cold too
minus the cold sore and scratched eye. I had a covid test after a few days of not feeling well
it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, I do not
have covid. I am going to take the test to see if I have the
antibodies because maybe I had it in the beginning.
Nobody in my family caught my cold so that is a relief.
I am on the mend.
Maybe today we will know who the 46th President of the USA will be.
Whoever wins the challenge to reunite our country will be
monumental and difficult.
Please send me your story.
I will restart to post them in a few days.
Stay safe.
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