Every life has value

I woke up  in a cold sweat yesterday morning from a nightmare. No monsters, just random things that I was somehow responsible for popping up, with no framework in which to approach them, no common cause with others to let me know what I was responsible for. And the triggers for my nightmare?  One is the down-to-the-wire…

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Changes, by Judy Horton

Seems like I fell off the Blogosphere the past few months. Lots of things got in the way of blogging.  I didn’t want the blog to become all about my experience with cancer, which though possibly interesting, is not the purpose of this blog.  I did post some on Kelly’s struggles with my illness, which…

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Back in the Day

We’re now in our 22nd year of living on Down Home Ranch.  Jerry, Kelly and I moved here into a small two-bedroom mobile home we dubbed “The Mustard Seed” September 9, 1991, having sold our home, and cashed out our retirement.Looking back, I would give those three pioneers about one chance in a thousand to…

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Memento mori

Life’s hardest lesson seems to be that we must always be struggling against our own limitations–emotional, physical, intellectual, financial, spiritual.   I can accept that I must struggle with that, but it’s so unfair that Kelly should have to, so now I find myself crying like a four year old “That’s not fair!”   Two and a…

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