Version 3.0
My first blog was over at Blogger. That was essentially a collection of commentaries, musings, and rants on whatever life brought at the moment. Then I discovered Wordpress.org and moved my stuff over there until I eventually decided to get my own domain. Then towards the end of 2008, I removed all the blog’s contents and changed it to serve a single purpose – to raise funds to help finance treatment for my wife, Luth, who by then had Stage IV Lung Cancer.
Raise funds it did, but later on I found it difficult to post new stuff. Some of the things I wanted to write about didn’t really fit. And I didn’t want to keep on writing just about how Luth was doing – On the one hand it could sometimes be too depressing, and on the other I also didn’t want to trivialize this phase in our lives into something like a bad reality TV show.
So this idea of going at it again for a 3rd time slowly took hold. And now I have a fairly good idea of how to keep this blog going, and some of the new plug-ins and stuff from Wordpress will help me do just that.
The Journey
Have you ever heard people talk of a life-changing journey? Ha! This is one we never planned on taking. But it’s a journey that a lot of people have been forced to take. The Big C Express. The Big C Scenic Tours Inc. Take your pick. The trip has often been compared to a roller coaster ride because it twists and turns, and throws you down just when you think there’s time to catch your breath. Here and there are notes about the ups and downs, and as I’ve discovered, if you try hard enough there are actually some beautiful sights to be seen.
The Journal
Time stops when you find out that your mate has cancer. And you do wish it would really stop. But it doesn’t. Time crawls. Time walks. Time passes you by. It doesn’t care if anyone’s sick. The world goes on and on with or without you. And bills will still need to be paid, and the car needs to be cleaned, and you will still wonder if some people you meet along the way were actually birthed in Saruman’s Pits.
Here and there are various notes on this so-called life – at least my version of it.
