Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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Well, becoming a fertilizer is not a bad perspective, Elizabeth...
That's our flowerbed, last July.
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What spectacular pictures! I love the bee, especially.
Linda
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Gee, I can't tell which are the flowers and which are the girls. Both are so pretty in the sunshine
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Hi Meg! I hope you're doing well. I like your idea. I like the idea of nourishing plants, honey bees, maybe a tree to provide shade or a secret place for a romantic encounter! Maybe I could also be a chocolate cake! Thank-you for the smile. Hugs,
Elizabeth
xox
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Leprechaun ... Your pictures are AWESOME! What a beautiful garden!
hugs,
Bren
KK .. I'd like to be buried in my rose garden. I want to be remembered next to my beautiful roses.
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Kar...when people say they will pray for me I just nod my head..I know they
want what is best for me...and I am not out to convert anyone to my way of
thinking..but it is nice to know others have come to the same conclusions
that I have...
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Lisa .. the pic of the cosmos is stunning!!
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I'm newly diagnosed and I am also an atheist 0
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Hi, Palmer! This is a good place to find like-minded folks. Sometimes, I've thought that being an atheist made it harder for me to get through BC and sometimes I've thought it made it easier. At least I never thought BC was some sort of punishment from a supernatural entity who didn't like the way I'd been living my life.
The lady who started this thread hasn't been back in some time, but there's a group of us here who talk about all sorts of things. While many of us (including me) are no longer "newly diagnosed," we have a wealth of experience and empathy about the journey we're all on.
It may be hard to believe, but the "just diagnosed" part of the journey is actually the very worst part. You're in limbo and your brain goes crazy with "what ifs." Once you begin treatment, it gets easier, because you're *doing* something.
Wishing you and our other new posters well!
--CindyMN
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Garden is now a four letter word in my house. This year, I actually attempted to plant one, a small one, in the sunniest part of the yard--the front. My husband had someone come and dig it up and we started peas and the like in the house and transplanted them and YOU HAVE NEVER IN YOUR LIVES SEEN SUCH A LAME SAD EXCUSE FOR A GARDEN!!!! Ever since I transplanted stuff, it has rained or been cold and over cast. Even the lettuce refused to sprout and in my opinion, you are one lame gardener if you can't sprout lettuce. Sad sad sad.
Even more sad, i have friends coming to visit in July for the first time and I had such grand illusions of my lovely garden where we would sit and sip wine and enjoy admiring the tomatos. . . I am thinking to sneak off to a nursery and get some REALLY big starts and stick them in and hope for a miracle . . . .
For the new posters, I would concurr that the early part after diagnois is the hardest because there is no control and you don't know what you are going to do. but it does get better. . . .
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thanks Bren...those are in my back yard and growing well..
Palmer, the beginning is so difficult...making decsions and
trying to research..I felt I needed to get a PHD in Breast Cancer
in three weeks...not the way to go...this isn't a race, just take
one step at a time and come on back here..
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Wow. I am loving all the wonderful photos.
Thanks, everyone!
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Hi ladies. I haven't been on this thread for a few months. I'm not really an atheist and I was feeling like maybe this wasn't the right place for me to be posting, but I love to garden and y'all drew me back in. Dawnn, so good to see you posting again. I loved your Jesus Jesus story. I grew my first vegetable garden this year. I grew one tomato plant, one cucumber plant and several bell peppers. Spring starts early where I live, so by the 'first day of summer', my tomato and cucumber plants are darn near kaput. Elizabeth, I kind of wonder if your version of the afterlife isn't more in line with reality than what the 'good book' says.
I like this thread because it's so sensible and agreeable. It seems to be inevitable that someone will try to throw it off balance, but those attempts are consistently shortlived. There's good comaradarie here and I like how disruption is calmly deflected and disarmed here. As for me, I look at nature, our own bodies, and marvel how mysteriously and wondrously made we are. It makes me feel reasonably certain a higher power is involved. Yet, religion just rings hollow for me, no matter which one I look at. I was raised as a Methodist.
Even as a kid, I had many reasons for not liking church. First and foremost, I was made to wear dresses! And curled hair! And shiny shoes. Didn't like any of those things, then or now. And then to make matters worse, it was during sunday school that I learned santa wasn't real. Some girl blurted out that it's nothing but the parents doing it all, as if everyone already knew this. My bubble was burst and I didn't like it one bit. As an adult, I find the church to be so .... patriarchal. Honestly, I can understand that people need to create stories in order to attempt understanding something that's beyond our comprehension, but good grief, someone needs to create some new material! Maybe Dawn's chicken will make a third return and provide all the answers I seek.
I agree with other comments that the just dx'd period is THE worst. Information overload delux. I'm five years out now and still here to complain about the whole ordeal. I swear I still have chemobrain.
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Just like composting returns the nutrients from plants to the soil, nothing is lost to the universe. Everything is recycled; matter to energy and energy to matter.
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I don't think any of us have ever minded non-atheists posting here, except (of course) the ones trying to convert us! <grin>
Religion is such a big part of most people's lives, it's just nice to be able to exchange views with like-minded folks. It's a little like the BC sisterhood. We "get" what it's like to have BC. Every once in a while, it's nice to talk to people who "get" what it's like to face life without religion.
--CindyMN
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saw this today outside our grocery store
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I think I like your grocery store!
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Okay .. who's in charge of the sun god ??
It's hot, hot, hot here in So. W. VA! I'm getting cabin fever hiding in the house from the heat!
Love to all,
Bren
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I'm on vacation this week and of course it's unbearably hot. So I get up early and try to start my gardening chores before 8 am. I try to be done by noon. Which gives me plenty of time to nap before my 5pm glass of wine.
In spite of the heat I'm really enjoying this schedule. Makes me really want to retire!
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You all (y'all?!) are not alone! Here just north of the border my thermometer is reading 94F and the air is perfectly still. There isn't even a slight breeze off the lake. Jet stream is too far north
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The jet stream must be in Jersey ... cause it sure isn't in So. W. VA!
Hey Layne ... are you going to be down my way in August? I don't want to miss you if you're coming this way.
Rico ... great schedule. I got bored today and took a nap. Have to get all my gardening done by 11 a.m. too, and water the flowers twice a day now!
Stay cool y'all,
love,
Bren
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hello, I want to say, "may GOD Bless and keep you this is the kind of GOD I serve that even though you don,t know HIM HE still loves you, so I will call out to HIM on your behalf. It so odd that I too know of people who are atheist but when something awful happens in thieir life the first thing I,ve heard them say is Oh my GOD, or GOD help me, he doesn,t discriminate HE will still be there for you even then. I don,t know how anyone could get through this devastasting disease and treatments with HIM(GOD), GOD BLESS YOU, a 16 year survivor, who called out to HIM, before and especially during and after. He,ll be there for YOU TOO, try HIM. msphil
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con,t, on my previous post to an atheist, i wrote I don,t know how anyone can get through this disease WITHOUT HIM, is what I meant to type, WITH HIM is LOVE. msphil
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leprechaun,
your pictures are breathtaking! I needed to see some of nature's fireworks today
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For the last couple of weeks, a gorgeous black cat has been keeping my neighbors and me company. I had initially been assured that she belonged to some folks in a nearby apartment. Small assurance since the cat has no traffic sense and people drive really fast on our very residential street. But at least she was being fed. Or so we thought.
Apparently the people who owned her recently moved out of their aparment and left her loose. There was simply no way I could take in a cat with all the other animals I have.
However, my neighbors lost two of their cats late last year to old age and...
drum roll please...
have taken her in. They're thinking of naming her Stormy in honor of the big storm we had yesterday.
I am thrilled that Stormy is safe and I will continue to get to visit with her.
Whoo hoo!
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I saw these yesterday
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Lisa -- those photos are catalogue-perfect! You have such a great eye
.Rico -- for sure Stormy will have a much, much better life than she had with previous owners who quite obviously didn't care for her. Breaks my heart that people just abandon their pets like they would an old sofa.
Speaking of storms, we finally experienced the heatwave breakthrough yesterday with lots of calm (but no stormy/thundering/lightning se's), welcoming rain. Today is clear, warm and breezy -- just perfect! I expect/hope our pals in the northeast are beginning to enjoy the same!
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We're getting the rain today, so hoping for a break in temps soon. My poor topsy-turvy tomato plant is positively wilted, but it's bigger brother in a regular pot is thriving. Go figure.
Our poor kitty was either abandoned or had lost her mother when we got her. She's the most grateful and loving cat I've ever met. She's starting to say "mom" when she wants me to follow her. Hahahaha. SO glad that Stormy got a good home! It breaks my heart to see abandoned pets.
I got some good news this week - Social Security approved my disability so I'll be retiring soon. Of course I'd rather work if I could, but since I can't the SS is good news!
Hope everybody is having a great weekend!
E
P.S. Lisa - gorgeous roses! Absolutely stunning!
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