This post marks the writer's return to blogging after battling breast cancer. They express the difficulty of reliving the challenging experience and the ongoing impact it has on them. The blog aims to document their journey, including the side effects, appointments, and emotions, with the hope of providing support and understanding to others facing similar struggles.
Life is what we make of it
We make plans for the future, with hopes and dreams marking a timeline, and every last detail scrutinized to death until we feel we'll go insane waiting for this future to arrive. But what if it is set in stone while the timeline feels borderline hypothetical due to being extremely flexible? The future known, yet... Continue Reading →
Let’s get physical
The writer recently started a new job that surprisingly involves customer service and inside sales at a women's fitness facility. Despite feeling pulled in many directions, the job is enjoyable, and the writer is reevaluating long-held beliefs to work toward a better future. Overall, life is seen as wonderfully chaotic.
What will be, will be
The author reflects on their writing, expressing doubt about its future. They acknowledge personal struggles and conflicting emotions. Despite challenges, they find solace in love and support. The complexity of their life makes it hard to discern between good and bad experiences. They admit to feeling both pain and happiness, ultimately finding hope in the support of loved ones.
From the Dungeons of WPaD
This is from the always amazing David Stone…I dare not even try to comment.
The officer stood framed in the doorway, looked over the class of cadets, and began to speak.
“Cadets, look around you at these walls. The portraits you see are the great heroes of this country. Eisenhower, Patton, Marshall, Grant, Jackson: great leaders all, but not the true heroes of this country. For these people, while they led armies into battle, actually planned the campaigns, and waited for the results. The true Americans heroes were the thousands of men and women under their command, the soldiers and sailors who fought and died, pushed forward and fell back, won…and lost battles.
Brian Jenkins, John Willoughby, Paul Stone and thousands of others fought and died at these peoples commands so that you might enjoy the freedom to do what you’re doing; choosing your own destiny in the world. The bodies that fill the military and civilian graveyards are the bodies of our true…
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Late day
lying here, thinking random thoughts, the breeze caresses my brow, the cicadas serenading, the body relaxes, sleep overtakes, dreams run wild, tears threaten, wake up slowly, back to reality.
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