Your Daily Bread

I think I have found a new provocative, infuriating four-letter word.
W A I T.

Seems it is all I do, from waiting for the coffee to be done, to waiting stuck in the traffic that brings the medical district to a total gridlock each and every day, waiting for Jim to be seen, waiting for the therapy to be over, wait for the test results, wait for the transplant.... if all the waiting we all do could be harnessed, there would be no energy crisis. End of vent.

For the moment, our daily commute to Boston is over and Jim is feeling a little better. Still kind of "ehh" but not in as much pain as he was in. The radiation is pretty remarkable stuff. Next week is the "off" week for the chemo so we can just relax a little and get back to the routine stuff.

The following quotes came to me from a source that sends thoughts every day, automatically. My original observation is "The good times make you happy and the bad times make you grow." These were so much in line with my philosophy I had to chuckle.

"In school you get the lesson and then take the test...In life you take the test and then get the lesson. " --unknown source

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."--Charles Beard

"The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life." ---Dalai Lama

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." ---Albert Einstein

I think sometimes that we are managing as well as we are because a lot of people don't consider adversity to be a part of their daily bread. They see it rather as a razor blade that doesn't belong in their loaf. But a measure of adversity, even quite a lot, is as important as salt is to bread. The sooner that is accepted as truth, the easier life becomes.

(stepping daintily down from her wooden soap box)