Cancer

Just Kidding-It’s Hell I’m thinking I should take a hint from Hebrew scripture. Please bear in mind I am no scholar, so just roll with it, eh? In the book of Exodus, it talks about the high priest going into the Holy of Holies wearing his robe, bedecked with bells…

Cancer: an introverts special kind of hell Another week, another chemo. Almost passed out having my IV put in (if you read last week’s post you will know how much I love, love, love needles.) …

“When they told us she only had a few months to live, they broke the horrible news that she had cancer. We arranged everything in only 20 days, and we got married,” he said. Seeing her grin in the midst of everything was the most beautiful day of my life. My favorite picture of my late wife, taken a week after she died away, always makes me feel better. Photographs by Christina Lee The Weird and Amazing Things website

Written 2019 — There’s no going back, And yet I keep trying, Lying in bed afraid of them dying, Lying there sweating and crying alone, My mind bombarded with visions of home. Flashbacks of sounds, smells and sights, Memories strobing and filling the night. Involuntary choice, I settle on one; One happy pause, and then they are gone. The breathe in me…

Around ten thousand years ago, just as our nearly forgotten relatives were supposedly figuring out agriculture, contemplating the trade-off with the old nomadic ways, they were also quite fixated on the Goddess-or the Mother. It’s hard to imagine what they talked about, but they clearly worshiped the feminine, and I…