Today has offered up another source of contentment based in a sense of personal accomplishment.
The comforter I’d ordered (on sale from $300 down to $79), including two king shams, arrived and is currently adorning our bed with red, white and blue striped simplicity—and the fact that its linear pattern embraces a touch of beige suggests that our silk pillow cases (hinting toward gold) need not be replaced. I also have several throw pillows, which for years, have had no real home to speak of, and as they look smashing atop our new comforter, they are nomads, no more.
Gosh! I haven’t cared about any of this ‘stuff’ in more than two years. David commented that he’s happy to see me take an interest in things that had not sparked my mind to busy itself with anything other than reading and writing ever since my first disastrous dosage of chemo had threatened my life as much as has cancer.
As work calls David back to LA, our son left for the west coast, today.
And as I reminisce over our five week stay in paradise, where we’d inhaled sea-salted air, every day while enjoying our loved ones, it’s obvious as to why our daily engagement with human interaction lit a fire under my spirit, re-igniting my desire to embrace life beyond my bedroom as fully as is possible when one is unwell.
With that said, I hope the sun assigns a sunbeam to direct a bright sense of warmth throughout the rest of your day (My defense system offers my imagination clearance to wax poetic whenever a serious medical test is on the horizon.)
As it’s time for Will to drive me to Mayo for an ultrasound-guided biopsy, let’s crank up the gear shifts on our positively focused attitudes and hope for the best, because each time a highly trained medical team extracts a specimen from within the human body, no one knows what may or may not be found until test results have returned from the lab.
Those of you who think to know me well may recall my belief in having a variety of win-win plans up my sleeve, and no matter today’s biopsy result—I plan to remain centered.
Annie
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