Savoring

These days I'm feeling incredibly helpless and frustrated while a good friend out there is going through challenges about which she was given no choice. She was recently given a pamphlet by her doctor; apparently doctors are required to give it to all patients who've been given a diagnosis of breast cancer (in Beckett's case, precancerous cells have been found). Inside near the back was this quote from the National Cancer Institute: "Cancer might rob you of the blissful belief that tomorrow stretches into forever. In exchange, you are granted the vision to see each day as precious, a gift to be used wisely and richly. No one can take that away."

I know the flyer was meant well, but I found it incredibly insensitive and somewhat patronizing, given the context. What's ironic is that Beckett enjoys life more fully than almost anyone I know, already savoring each day to the fullest.

But I have to stop now.

Time for some silliness...

Skimper experiment update: Two days after posting, my page is now #3 out of 22,700 results in a Google search for 'skimper', behind Skimper.com and Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. Don't know if I'll get ahead of Skimper.com, but Skippy is going to relinquish his #2 spot! What the heck is that furry little guy DOING in the search results for "skimper", anyway? The word is nowhere on his site.

Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, you're in for a fall...

(Update: after posting this, Google's robot checked Blatherings again and discovered that my Skimper post was no longer on the main page. Confusingly, one of the follow-up pages has been ranked #8, with no sign of the original Skimper page. Aha, a true challenge! Skippy, you're not out of the woods yet.)

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