Photo: Karen Forte
If I could have a pink
Ribbon
Large enough to show my love
Of you
Who fought
And lived
And fought
And passed
And fight on
Still,
I would need the whole breadth
Of sky
To mark
It’s size
And enlist the heavens
As both paint
And quill.
(Photo by my amazingly talented and generous friend Karen Forte, who fills my heart and soul with the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.)
Photo: Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
It lingered, hidden.
It’s potential ever present
Yet hoped
To in deep sleep
Remain.
Till it found purchase
Someplace where the
Balance
Could not be
Maintained.
“It’s metastatic now,”
They said
And shook their head
And watched her deep breath
Rise
Along with the determination
From last time,
Returned.
It will be
What it will,
But even if equilibrium
Was difficult to
Attain,
She was going to meet
Life
Head on
Again.
Dedicated to those who are facing this challenge now: You got this. We got you.
For Linda Hill’s SoCS challenge: “-tast”
Rawson Lake; photo: Jack Ng
It was their last day by the lake. The weather was perfect and the air was so crisp it squeaked. She inhaled deeply, savoring every moment. By that time tomorrow she’d be stuck in rush-hour traffic.
“See?” he pointed. “Even wood can’t keep its head above water at some point.”
She snuck a hand into his and squeezed. She wished she could give him sips of this place during what was to come. She wished she could tell him this round wouldn’t be as difficult as the ones before. That this one would work. She didn’t know if to hope or fear it being the last. It shattered her that she no longer knew what he hoped for.
She gathered the light around her, kissed his baldness, and rose to stand.
“For now, my love, let’s float.”
For What Pegman Saw: Rawson Lake Canada
For the child who finally got a clean bill of health, long enough into remission at last, after three bouts of cancer, four surgeries, five courses of chemo, two collapsed lungs, a resistant infection, and more invasive treatments and hospital days than one can count (though I’m sure her parents had counted. Every. Single. One.)
Whew.
We’re so relieved.
You rock, little one!
For The Daily Post
Sharing a lovely story that touched my heart and underscores tenderness and care.
We often underestimate the ability of animals–especially wild animals–to make connections and to express compassion. When they display affection, it can surprise us. Every time.
Empathy, connection, and memory of sensitive care are often associated with apes and elephants, dolphins and whales, even lions, but not very often with giraffes … Giraffes are more commonly known for their vicious kick than for their tenderness for humans … Though here they are, ‘kissing’ and nuzzling a terminally ill zoo worker who cared for them most of his adult life. They recognized him, and in their own way these lumbering and potentially deadly animals, came to say a gentle goodbye.
Read the story at the Independent here!
Little Emily will melt your heart.
Not only precociously verbal, adorable, and poised, she also has empathy, kindness, unflinching generosity, and a huge soul unconstrained by her little body.
Good for her! Good for her parents for advocating caring, recognizing empathy in their child, and sensitively giving her a way to provide a kindness. Good for Uncle Matthew, too … for first giving a haircut to the doll … (love that old trunk booster, man!)
May kindness flow so that unnecessary pain no longer finds foothold and loving actions shine like this child’s heart of gold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwQZggdZrOo
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