Short and Sometimes Sweet

"I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still The deepest impressed on my heart." So this week sees the birthday of my youngest child and only girl, Anna. She reaches the ripe old age of 18. A young woman, a grown up in training, but always my little girl. I wish she had a sister but alas it wasn't to be.A necessary sacrifice, but a painful one just the same. It was while I was expecting Anna that I had my first cancer scare, and she likes to think we saved each others lives and she might be right! As is my wont, whenever one of them has a birthday, I think about the events leading up to their birth, and the first moments of looking in this wee person's eyes and wondering what they thought of me and what had just happened to them! I can't believe that 18 years has passed in the blink of an eye. Anna was and still is the apple of my eye. And my mum adored her. I can't help but think of my mum at a time like this and wish she could be here to see the beautif...

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”  ―  Gautama Buddha ,  Sayings Of Buddha Well it's been an interesting few weeks. Not all in a good way but such is life. My life has changed in a lot of many ways, and I struggled to cope, but I'm doing well. Some of friends and family know that I've been on my own little time out for a few days. This has helped me to realise my own strength in more ways than one. It is the Anniversary of my life saving surgery. Four years ago I was basically sliced in half and some of my body parts taken away, and some re built. I was very very ill. I've always been told by the medical profession that I never really understood or accepted the enormity of that. And they could well be right. I think I still don't. I've never lived on my own. Never. Not travelled alone, not gone out on my own, not done literally anything on my own. It's crazy but it's the truth. I've n...