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Great Plans

Posted in Change, Family, Friends, Life, Raising Awareness, reality, Sharing is caring, Sick and Tired, Stealing words, The Future, Tutoring, Writing words on 11 March 2011| 3 Comments »

Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit.
Mike Tyson

Before the recent one-two punch from infection after infection, and before the internet snafu and ensuing struggles with Comcast, and before the exciting week with visitors, and before I was finally able to get back to work this week, I had great plans. Well, I guess not great plans – they were nothing compared to those of my childhood, or those of a naive high schooler, or even those prior to the latest major health struggles back in December and January – but they were plans.

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Now back to our regularly scheduled program

Posted in Babies, Coming together, Family, Friends, Home sweet home, Immune Deficiency, Keith, Kiddos, Party Time, Playing Games, Raising Awareness, Sleep, Tummy troubles, Tutoring on 9 March 2011| 2 Comments »

As you may have noticed, I’ve been mostly absent from the internet for over two weeks now. Following an internet snafu at our apartment that took far too long to remedy (thank you, Comcast…), I’m baaaack! And we are now the proud owners of a land-line with a Massachusetts phone number! Yahoo!

I must say that it was somewhat nice not having internet. I didn’t stress over e-mail or Facebook or even the weather. Whatever happened, happened. It’d still be there when I got the internet back. I was able to check for important e-mails and monitor bank accounts and the like by borrowing internet from friends every few days, but it was for minutes at a time and just for the essentials. It was almost as if I were back in the 1990s! And I loved it!

But now that I’m back, I’ll give you a brief update on the last 18 days, you know, in the few hours I wasn’t catching up on sleep! 😛

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For you

Posted in Coming together, Friends, Hope, Love and loss, mito, Raising Awareness, Stealing words, The way I see it on 7 February 2011| 8 Comments »

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
-Mother Theresa

Sometimes I can find no words for what’s going on in the world around me. For what’s happening to those I love. For the pain and hurt I see. My solution? I steal words.

Mother Theresa is one of my favorite sources. She finds the words that my heart wants to say but is too distraught, too lost to find.

When I am hurt or see a loved one in pain, my first instinct is to pull it all back, to retreat. I often describe myself as being as vulnerable as a sea cucumber. I’m sensitive and out in the open. My only defense is looking pathetic and harmless enough that no one would want to harm me. (I mean, seriously, have you ever seen a sea cucumber?) But that’s not the answer.

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