Friends, Family and Fur: People Need People.

Brain cancer is...

 ...drinking in the presence of our people!

Thanks, Friends, for beginning to share with us the ways you're coping now, and what you've learned about coping now from hard times in the past.  We're building up the list.  Lots of clear themes.  Keep your strategies coming!

As we prepare the Team D list, we'll keep talking about...us.  ("Enough about you."  Ha ha.) We'd like to share some things we learned from coping with GBM that are helping us cope now.  Probably these are things you already know; you've been telling us similar things.  We'll include a link to a past post that illustrates our point. Today is Darrell and Andi's Lesson #1.

Lesson Number One:  We need people:  One thing we learned through Darrell's diagnosis is the importance of our people.  We learned that people were our safety net for all the times we were slipping on that brain cancer high wire.  People were then--and continue to be--always there for us.  A post from March 2016 ("Can you see the wave?" here) illustrates just how much we needed you, and there you were.  Just like now.  Just like we need to be there for you and for each other.

Above you see that we were fortunate to have a six-foot front patio party with Gail and Melanie today. 

We also had the privilege of being the presence of our peeps--family and friends--with a walk, a phone call, and a Zoom session.  We drank in every second with family and friends.

Thanks, too, Gail, and Melanie, for bringing our fur people friends, Sunny and Tessa.  We miss dogs, and we can no longer get our dog fill by asking people on walks if we may say hello to their dogs.  Frankly, it's startling how fast that question became taboo!

Speaking of fur, here's the 2016 post that welcomed Mousse to the family.  Good thing he hasn't charged us for the therapy he has provided over the years! And check out Darrell and Beowulf grinning in each other's company in this post.

So that's Darrell and Andi's Lesson #1:  We need friends, family, and fur.  And by "we" we mean "we all."  People need people. 

Today's Bloom

Backyard Butterfly Iris Greets the Morning Sun

Square Inch of Silver Lining 

We're still using the gift of time on our long list of projects.  We continued the Yard Work Deep Clean Project today with the Bird of Paradise declutter.

Andi's Pile

Darrell the Engineer's Pile