36 Years of Adventure

Brain cancer is...

...celebrating 36 years of surprises.

Today is our actual anniversary.  Here’s how we look, after 36 years of marriage.

On our wedding day, we definitely wouldn't have predicted the many ways life has changed us.  Well, the wrinkles, maybe in an abstract, well deserved sort of way.  The Grandma and Grandpa jammies?  Conceivable but not a foregone conclusion.  GBM?  Optune?  Never. 

 

In fact, we didn't predict most of the adventures we've seen in these years. But also we would have failed dramatically at predicting just how wonderful having each other as life partners could turn out to be. We call it one square inch of silver lining that accompanies GBM:  Gratitude for another day the privilege of having a partner you love more than your own life itself.  What an adventure!

 

Neither could we have predicted the wonderful people who would come our way in these 3.6 decades.  An example, you ask?  Here's a notable one from a FaceTime call today:  

And we are also profoundly grateful for the friends we've known before our wedding date and for all those who have given us the privilege of their friendship more recently. Thank you, family and friends, for traveling this road with us. 

Cheers to the wonderfulness of each other!

Cheers to the next adventures!

Today's Blooms

Chris solved many mysteries of yesterday's blooms with the great website, Friends of Big Bear (here), and she led us to a goldmine:  California Native Plant Society and its searchable database (here).

No matter how many days we hike here, we find new surprises.  Here's one of today's:

May there always be one more surprise.