Serenity

We took some time off from cancer today. At least a few hours.

Work is keeping each of us busy during the days but cancer is still an ever present thought intruding on much of our days.

Tonight we decided to banish cancer from our life. Just for the evening.

We didn't spend the evening talking about anything cancer related. We had supper together, we talked about work and what we needed to get done around the house, we revisited our favorite times from our June vacation on Sanibel Island, then we sat out back in the swing. Kevin built the swing and the arbor that holds it. I painted "Time began in a garden" across the front of it. We watched the hummingbirds flit around the feeders, heard the bullfrog calling from the pond and waited for night to fall and the fireflies to come out.

I wanted to stop time and hold onto the evening forever.