Milestone In My Life

Twenty five years ago this Christmas Eve I was diagnosed with a terminal disease. Terminal. What does that mean? A number. Closure. But not really. Not in my case. There was a doctor (or two) who told me I was terminal. Said I had three to five years to live. But here I am at a milestone in my life. Twenty five years.

At five year increments I’ve always thought I should write about it. I’ve started and then I’ve stopped because I wasn’t ever really certain anyone would be interested in my story. I’m not sure why that is because I’ve shared it with many people over the years and I know it’s helped in their struggles, whatever they might be. But now, at this milestone, I feel a need to write about my journey.

I will share as much as I can, be it sad, funny, silly, scary, angry, confused, whatever other emotions enter into the equation, in the hopes that it might help someone else on their journey.

Twenty five years ago I was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia and who the heck knows why??

Have You Ever Seen A Dragonfly Smile

The other day I was out in my yard looking at my fountain and two dragonflies surprised me. They looked like they were playing the way they were flying at and around each other but who knows what they were doing. Perhaps it was some kind of mating dance.

I was fascinated watching them and after one of them disappeared, the other just kind of hung around and I felt like it spoke to me. Call me crazy but I asked it to please stick around and I ran into the house and grabbed my “not so fancy” camera. Well, it did and this photo is the result of our meeting.

I had no idea what the image was like until I put it on my computer and I saw the smile, something I’ve never seen before.

Magic. Special. Nature.

Fancy that!