With family members here visiting this past weekend, I have fallen behind. With my current health, my body fatigues easily and I need more rest.
More rest means I am spending less time doing other things – such as WP related activities.
I have fallen behind. So, a short post for today.
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A couple of months ago, Gary and I went out to explore the surrounding area.
A couple of months ago, I was walking without assistance and I was feeling good that day.
A couple of months ago, we set our destination for Treasure Island.
Happy Day Everyone!
I have added a new category to my blog titled ‘a Visual Recite’.
I have taken many pictures over the years and I share them with you with a recite.
another world –
When you’re in a fighter jet and there’s a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it’s light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
– Yves Rossy
My category ‘Pictures & Stories’ are posts with me writing a fictional, creative short story about a picture.
Umbrellas –
As the sun begin to set for the day, the overwhelming feeling of comfort took over.
The daylight hours were coming to an end and soon the nightfall would be upon them.
Their time was limited and they would not be needed again until the next opening.
It was the beginning to the closure.
But the surrounding activities would continue for what seemed like eternity.
They would stand tall, yet unopened and wait again as they always do to be needed.
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“The sun always shines above the clouds.”
– Paul F. Davis
“Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.”
– William Arthur Ward
My category ‘Pictures & Stories’ are posts with me writing a fictional, creative short story about a picture.
boat slip –
He informed her: ‘I told you this would be a lost cause!’
She responded: ‘Well, what can I say; this is the address they gave me.’
They both were distraught and tiredness was wearing them down.
The address was correct, it was the correct marina, but what was the boat slip number? There should have been more information given to them at the time, but nobody offered the information they needed. The slip number was needed and no one knew it. As they walked amongst the boats, they knew their efforts would be futile.
He again informed her: ‘We need the boat slip. I told you this would be a lost cause!’
She responded: ‘Yes dear, I know that. Now let’s go!’
In my posts ‘Look Forward‘ and ‘Seeking a Home Base‘, I wrote about the future planned trip to central Florida in search of a possible location to relocate to.
That trip will begin tomorrow.
Many activities have already taken place this week and my time on WP has recently been limited.
Today, I am spending most of the day alone with hopes of catching-up on reading posts and writing posts.
What does the yellow dot have to do with today?
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
– George Grey
I took this video several months ago, early one morning to watch the sunrise.
It had much to offer me.
Since my surgery I have yet to walk on the beach, it is waiting for my return.
One day when feeling a little better I plan to take a walk on the beach again.
One day when I am recovered I plan to watch another sunrise.
And take in what it has to offer.
My category ‘Pictures & Stories’ are posts with me writing a fictional, creative short story about a picture.
The day’s end –
At the sun’s set and the water’s calm.
A solitude of sorts was making its way amongst those and their efforts.
For the day’s end is fast approaching and another night fall will be upon them.
The results of the day’s events would be appreciated as their efforts would not be in vain.
At the sun’s set and the water’s calm.
They would retire and withdraw their crafts and rest before returning for another day.
If it seems I have published lots of downer posts lately, well you are correct I have. For the month of September, many of my posts are about my life with cancer and the impact it is having on me. I struggle with my emotions in that I want to deal with it with a positive attitude. But yet many times I do not, instead I allow cancer to dictate my moods and emotions toward the negative side – the dark side.
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I started chemotherapy the end of August and looking back at my posts in September I see a slide downhill into a dark hole of doom, gloom, despair, negativity and basically a living hell not only for myself, but Gary. The one person here each and every day to help me is the one person I take my frustrations out on. This easy going man is receiving the severe brunt response from a person who is allowing cancer to dictate the daily temperament.
So many of those posts in September reflect the transformation of a man once happy to now a man who seems lifeless at times. September reflected the start of a phase that was unwelcomed and unfamiliar and came in with a vengeance. This surge forced physical pain into my life, many blood samples, surgical procedures, chemotherapy treatments, doctor’s visits and hospital stays. I was not ready for this whirlwind of change.
In September, I threw in a few positive posts and still others that were not related to the current happenings of the day. I have always wanted my blog to be diverse in topics even though the main focus is my life. But my life currently is focused on cancer and all that it entails. I do not like that cancer is calling me toward the dark side or it may be that I do not like that I am allowing myself to be called toward the dark side.
I remind myself of that time decades ago and wrote about in my post ‘The Great Depression of the 1980s‘, which included these words –
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This decade evolved into depression, attempted suicides, a stay in a psychiatric hospital, and years of therapy and medications that carried into the next decade.
As a result of these issues I became very depressed to the point that it was difficult for me to get out of bed on some days. I think I remember once staying in bed for up to 3 days with no desire to do anything.
In today’s post, I conclude with the following –
Decades ago I accepted the calling into the dark side and again today it calls me. I allowed myself to be tempted and made steps toward the dark side; but I need to stop – because my life and more importantly Gary’s life is experiencing the evil of those steps.
September is over and the downer posts were published. The change of the season is in the air; the crispness, the coolness, the change in color and the change in nature. With these changes I to need to change also and my desire now is that my October change is from a step into the dark side to a step in the other direction. A step into a bright side; brighter emotions, brighter moods and a positive brighter me to deal with cancer.
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