Salut, mes amis. Guess what? I have some news that is not horrible! Normally I like to make a proper anecdote, with suspense and story arc, but I won’t make you live through the whole day with us. I’ll give it to you straight up: Val’s PET scan, in the Continue Reading
snippets and faith
Some things that are happening right now: Val is laughing on the couch as Favor tells a story about a time her head was mistaken for a beaver. Grapes and split-pea soup and wine are being consumed (by disparate people). The dog is asleep with her fuzzy muzzle flattened against Continue Reading
the heart tree
piece by piece
i am no longer feeling terror. which is such a relief. what i feel mostly is a great deal of wonder. suddenly this amazing organic community of people that i love; that i have always known and relished; has bloomed. like some 20 year perennial. here, suddenly is a graceful Continue Reading
Joining Val’s “Helping Hands” calendar
Lovely people, We’ve added a link for Val’s Helping Hands Calendar, to the right. Once I get it set up this will be a spot that shows what sort of help we need and when (rides, meals, serenades outside our windows, hand-painted Italian butter dishes, pot-bellied pigs, you know the Continue Reading
Going outside is always the best thing
We had a marvelous day today, hiking with friends in the Tom McCall Nature Preserve east of Hood River. Val and I try to go every spring to lose ourselves in the wildflowers and the wind. Both were in abundance today. The flowers were dazzling – lupine, Indian paintbrush, balsamroot, Continue Reading
Updates on the Val front: biopsy results
Dear friends, Last night we had more than 10 friends with us as we awaited the call from the pulmonologist who performed Val’s biopsy on Tuesday. Dr. Rettmann called around 7:00 (after his surgeries for the day) and was informative, compassionate, patient and helpful. Here is what he told us Continue Reading
not such great news from Deborah
Dear people I am fond of, It’s beginning to be hard to keep track of who knows what, so let me start with an update. Brace yourselves; it’s not good news. Since catching a cold in February Val has had a nagging cough. Through various trips to the health clinic Continue Reading
some moments last longer than others
my friends. ABSTRACTION: there is before and there is after. and then there is the chance that it is all a big mistake and then there is again. again after that. That. a still and condensed moment when i was thoroughly abandoned by my self. I watched it beat tracks Continue Reading