Monday, November 21, 2022
remission
Yes! To the best news ever finally received
After waiting many long months to hear it
Your surgery was a complete success
My sweet daughter is in remission at last
Finding myself on unfamiliar ground
To be given cause for a huge celebration
Not used to what I wish for coming true
More practiced with loss and disappointment
It’s really amazing how it worked out
After the first surgery failed with a grim outlook
How you found the one surgeon in the world
To go back in and remove the brain tumor
This happy day arrived not entirely unexpected
Subjectively reading your own well being
What you already sensed feeling much better
An awareness the blood work results confirmed
Following the third test in as many months
Tracking a trend that should continue
As the once elevated level declines further
Opening the prospect of a promising future
Free from anxious worry about progression
Free from fraught treatment decisions
Free from frequent medical appointments
Free to resume your life much wiser now
Sunday, November 20, 2022
location and mindset
There it is barely above freezing
But it's a nice day to be outside
According to Kevin writing back to me
Who just returned from the Arctic last week
Cold is a relative experience for him
Coming from the shore of Hudson Bay
After taking photos of polar bears
Waiting for the winter sea ice to form
He is a modern day adventurer
A man with a camera on a mission
Traveling to the ends of the earth
Collecting exquisite wildlife images
We also experience cold by degrees
Being used to subtropical warmth
For us here a temperature drop that is chilling
He would find positively balmy
The same weather may be delightful or dreadful
Depending on your location and mindset
As for me I am comfortably warm inside today
Waiting for the wind to shift and the sun to shine
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