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Staying engaged as we age into the third chapter of our lives takes boldness and being willing to keep stepping outside of our comfort zones.

Creative energy helps to cultivate vitality, well-being, grace and resilience on our aging life journeys.

14/10/2024

I love this time of year. We are especially blessed to have such a warm fall here in Kelowna. I am walking every day taking in the sun, the air and our beautiful city and lake. Thanksgiving is just the icing on the cake this past weekend. Getting together with family and expressing our gratitude to each other, reminds us all to "Stop and smell the roses". Having a serious diagnosis of cancer brings this all into proper perspective. My first blog post was titled about the very thing of slowing down and taking in life in each moment. I am now practicing this and finding that there always rainbows after the storm and we can wonder at their magnificence, knowing that miracles are present if we but look up and embrace the many infinite possibilities presented to us. I feel truly blessed.🌺♥🌺 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

21/09/2024

Time for an update for everyone on my cancer journey. Just got the results of my second follow up CTscans and all is stable. No new cancer evident so all the pain and suffering of chemo and radiation was worth it. Yay!! As I traverse this new life of uncertainty, every milestone is one to celebrate, and on I go for the next 3 months. It's a different life, but one that allows the continual remembrance to live in the moment. Thank you to all my mighty companions who are encouraging me, loving me and keeping me focused on believing in what is possible with faith, hope and courage. Hair is growing and life is good!

04/07/2024

Happy hugs with my grandson Jacob. So nice to have him and his lovely Dad home with us on Canada Day. Just can't get enough of these precious moments! What a sweetie!

28/06/2024

Thank you all for your birthday wishes. I had the best possible gift to celebrate yesterday from my follow up CTscan on Monday. The results from chemo and radiation showed a dramatic decrease in the size of my lung tumor and nothing at all appearing of concern that is new. It was all worth it and I am so eternally grateful to my family and many friends who have been walking by my side. Prayers heal that is for sure. Keep them coming! I was spoiled rotten with so much love and flowers and good wishes on this eventful start to my 73rd year. I am very blessed.💖💖

12/06/2024

Dave and I are just returning from another wonderful getaway at the WaterMark Beach Resort in Osoyoos. So relaxing and healing with sis Jeanie and hubby Steph joining us for a night as well. Reading all of your supporting comments and prayers has warmed my heart. Sending love back to each of you!

06/06/2024

Dave and I are taking great joy of once again having a little vegetable garden to take care of and watch it grow. In the middle of my treatment we amazingly got a call from being on the waiting list for 3 years to get a plot in the Community Garden just across the alley from where we not live. What perfect timing. It is healing and nurturing to go there every day and play in the earth. It's the simple things in life that mean so much right now.

31/05/2024

My life has changed. I have facilitated many workshops on "Finding Peace in Uncertainty" over the past couple of years as we all have traversed COVID. And now I am truly practicing what I preach with the very sudden diagnosis on November 8th of 2023 that I have stage three lung cancer. Almost seven months have passed and it has been a rollercoaster of unknowns, moving through fear, anger and sadness as tests and more tests were done, then two months of chemo and radiation and a hospitalization for pneumonia. It has challenged me to the core of everything I believe in and how I must allow myself to come first and receive care and nurturing from so many people that have surrounded me with love and prayers. Since the end of my treatment on April 5 and my discharge from KGH, I have grown stronger every day by letting go and letting in. Sharing my journey has always been present with me as I traversed these many unexpected changes in my life. And so today I begin my new beginning by sharing this with you. There is strength in vulnerability and every morning I begin my day trusting that this is a truth that will shape my life moving forward.

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