Happy Birthday!

 Happy 77th Birthday, Mom!

I hope you feel all the love coming your way today-from all around the world!

You are definitely my superhero.

Celebrating you today.

And every day.

Happy, happy, birthday, Mom. 

Ik hou van jou...with all my heart!

❤️❤️❤️

8-15-20

A quick update to share that Mom has started her latest round of chemo. The plan is for her to have weekly infusions (three weeks on/one week off) for the next few months. The hope is that it will stop or slow the growth of the cancer and that she will feel less pain as it goes.

As some of you may have heard, I am taking off for Holland today (!) for a month. Happily, Zack is still off work and is able to stay with Mom while I'm away. He'll be taking her to all of her appointments and I know they will enjoy this special time together.

 Mom shared this poem with me today and it seemed fitting to share it here.

Allow

There is no controlling life.

Try corralling a lightening bolt,

containing a tornado. 

Dam a stream and it 

will create a new channel. 

Resist, and the tide

will wipe you off your feet. 

Allow, and grace will carry you 

to higher ground. 

The only safety lies in

letting it all in-

the wild and the weak;

fears, fantasies,

failures and success. 

When loss rips off the doors of the heart,

or sadness veils your vision with despair,

practice simply becomes bearing the truth.

In the choice to let go 

of your known way of being,

the whole world is revealed to your eyes. 

~Danna Faulds