Light from around the world for LongTermSurvivor/Stephanie
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I am so glad you are resting and at peace. My prayers are with you.
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Thinking of you Stephanie and glad you sleeping in peace. I have been reading a book called "Tribe" by Sebastian Junger. It's about belonging, community, homecoming (after disasters, war, peace corps, trauma). It's a very interesting read. Our modern society doesn't allow much for a sense of tribal belonging that we all need from a mental and psychological stand point. BCO and our tribal mentality of caring for each other despite long distances and "virtual" reality - give us that needed support to endure the cancer, treatment and death. We can join the circle of belonging and caring - hugs to you! Hands and hearts together.
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Stephanie, hope you are surrounded by loving people, and the pain is not too bad, and I am so grateful to you for putting your experience down here for all of us, I am just amazed at your level of grace, and how you care for us right back! I think of you often through out my day, and am awed by your wisdom.
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Sending grateful love from Vermont.
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Hi Stephanie. Thinking of you and wishing you peaceful and happy days.
I also wanted to share a bit of my last adventure. My DD and I drove to the Midwest to celebrate my dad's 75th birthday. We threw a big party with the family which also included a scavenger hunt in a cemetery.
My dad has been taking us to cemeteries since we were tiny, so visiting them is a normal activity. He lives near the graves of his great great grandparents are buried so I put together a scavenger hunt for my cousins and all my dad's descendants. Each team got cards of 15 relatives and they had to find the headstones and fill in the dates. The young kids loved it and my dad was in his glory seeing the grandkids have fun.
While I was in town we bought our family plot and ordered the headstone. I have to thank you for all the information and stories you have shared that helped bring me to this place of peace and acceptance. You hold a special place in my heart.
Quick pic of 3 generations (wait four I forgot the baby!) hard at work at the hunt.
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Dear Stephanie,
Your posts have truly touched me and given me wisdom and peace. Your impact has been so special and awesome. I pray for you to get just what you need at just the right time always: peace, comfort, love, time for reflection, rest. God bless you and keep you always. Hugggg
Badger-how awesome that you have Trumpet Creeper!!!!! My brother stole it from the woods and planted it in our yard. We had so many hummingbirds!! I LOVE them and have tried to attract hummingbirds, with a feeder and red flowers. So far nothing! Need us some trumpet creeper! It is so beautiful also.
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The true beauty of our bodies is that they are the vehicle by which we experience the beauty of the world and the goodness of those around us.
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Stephanie ~ This is "Zowie." She's my favorite Zinnia. Beautiful, like you.
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Stephanie, I thought you would enjoy seeing what our library has as a featured book this month:
I was happy to see such a book featured, and hope that many other people will be able live fully as you have done the past 25 years.
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Hi Stephanie,
I was so happy to see your recent post in the Ibrance thread. I think of you every day. I hope you are resting and continue to feel at peace and are not in too much pain. You are an inspiration to us all.
Cathy
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Twelve days and nights my friends!
I sure didn't mean to walk away from your tender care and uplifting stories and images of what you love!
In waking life I haven't been walking much of anywhere these days. Instead, I laze about on down comforters (bed) or lambswool (couch). If I'm strong enough and the weather is just right, I can nap in the hammock. The catalpa leaves have yellowed and are crisp scuttling in the breeze. Autumn comes to the temperate northern hemisphere.
But, as I wrote in my blog, I'm more and more tender and my range of physically acceptable intrusions continues to narrow - perceptibly. Physical comfort is all important.
My acupuncturist has this thing she says when inserting needles, "ouchy, ouchy." She's a good Jewish doctor. Her needles help, don't hurt me. Her words and voice often come to my lips now.
The least cool breeze, wet bandage, prickly clothing or disruption unsettles me.
And I long to do nothing more than physically settle, so I can surrender to ongoing process that seems to be carrying me along as surely as the river flows to the ocean.
As the Threshold Choir song sings:
The ocean refuses no river, no river
The open heart refuses no part of me, no part of you.
I am one with all that is, one with all;
All that is is one with me, one with all.So, I go too.
I flicker between sleep and bliss and often these states overlap and blur.
Thank you for carrying me along with your warm interest in my process.
Truly blessed, Stephanie
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Hugs Stephanie! You are amazing. May these last days of summer fill your heart with love.
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dolphins and their babies from our holidays in county Clare. xxx
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(((Stephanie))) Love and peace from another California girl. You're truly a special lady.
Rose.
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Stephanie, I don't know if I've shared this favorite poem with you:
Death is Only an Horizon by Rossiter W. Raymond
O God, who holdest all souls in life;
and callest them unto thee as seemeth best:
we give them back, dear God, to thee who gavest them to us.
But as thou didst not lose them in the giving,
so we do not lose them by their return.
For not as the world giveth, givest thou,
O Lord of souls: that which thou givest thou takest away:
for life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only the horizon,
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We watched 2nd & 3rd episode of Cosmos last night and the presenter (Neil deGrasse Tyson) was explaining some philosophy in simple terms, about how horizons are always an illusion and there is no horizon, on earth or in the universe. I find that programme beautiful and amazingly comforting. Being small is beautiful.
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Backcountry Colorado Wildflowers for you Stephanie...... thinking of you. XO Andrea
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Glacier Point at Yosemite, looking to the Valley, with Half Dome on the right. You are this beauty to me, Stephanie.
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Holding you in the light Stephanie- may you know peace and contentment. Lovingkindness to you. rosevalley
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((Stephanie)) Love & Light from WI.
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Sending peaceful thoughts from Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota.
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Seagull letting people know it's time to take a break...
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An Irish blessing for you Dear Stephanie - may it gladden your heart and lighten your load.
Beannacht – John O'Donoghue
Beannacht
("Blessing")On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.~ John O'Donohue ~
(Echoes of Memory)
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I'm hanging in there.
Sleeping much of the time now.
Still grateful I can come here and write and sorta make sense.
Signed a letter "glove and latitude" today and somehow fits better than love and gratitude as words have sprouted wings and are flitting about like swallows in spring.
Sending much loving kindness and respect for everyone, Stephanie
Thank you for sharing what moves you here. It continues to hearten me and make this a soulful, spiritual place for others to come connect too. So important to connect. Sleepy now. Steph
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Stephanie, you are a light in my life. No more words are needed. Thank you. Brenda E
Rest easy
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Stephanie,
I have to second beat mom..........you are a light in my life as well.
Mary Anne
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Groovin' attitude!
lovin' gratitude, Stephanie
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Good morning, Stephanie.
I got up early today to run in the cooler hours and enjoy a sunrise.
Pre-dawn colors...
Sunrise, surf, surfer, seagull
A new day begins
Sending light and love,
Madelyn.
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