Family

This is a real bittersweet topic for me. As you know, it was almost four years ago now that I was ill. There are stacks of great blogs out there from people who are, or have documented their journey through cancer, in real time. A pal of mine is doing that right now at When life gives you melons. Those stories are real and wonderful. I’m choosing what I now reflect as being the big, key moments in my journey for my attitude and my outlook, both at the time and now.
I expect that I’ll be here for up to a year maybe, talking about “stuff”. 

I also know, as I write this, that I’ve slipped back into some of my comfortable old ways. The wonderful thing about life is that while it keeps going, you can change as many times as you want to. 

Family

I’m busy, you’re busy, so I 

Didn’t call this week. 

I’m here if you should need me, 

You know that is true. 

But life’s hectic, and we don’t have the 

Time to sit, with a brew, and chat.

I knew you would be there when I needed,

So I called you that day, my sister

And told you the news. 

Pulled together, all of us. 

Knitted closer by this illness. 

You all glittered, diamonds, I saw you then, 

As glistering as gold. More precious.

I resolved that though we live so far apart,

I’d call more, travel and see you all, more. 

And I did. 

But that was then, the hairless illness days.

When work was a dim memory, and I swear 

There was a glint of a scythe,

Just at the edge of all I saw. 

Now, I’m busy, you’re busy and 

I didn’t call this week. 

I’m so sorry. 

I’ll pick up that phone, today.