Sunday, May 20, 2012

May 20, 2012

I went camping this weekend for the first time since the diagnosis a month ago.  And you know what?  A finding of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma doesn’t change a thing.

The wildflowers are still blooming.


The ancient live oaks are still standing.


The birds are still singing.

The granite boulders are still solidly in place.

The trail beneath my boots is still calming.

The solitude is still there for a girl and her dog to lose themselves in.


The world still spins, and life goes on.  And life - for me - has always meant living outside, being in the backcountry, treading lightly as a part of the natural world, not apart from it.

Why would I allow cancer to change that?

L'chayim - to life!