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On March 3, 2012 my dear friend Marybeth passed away after a battle with cancer. Losing someone you love is always difficult, losing a friend is something that I never had to do before.
A loss of a friend has never meant death in my lifetime. Losing friends means that you moved away, they moved away, you had a disagreement, you were too involved and didn't have enough time to get together and drifted apart, but death is different. When losing a friend is not because of death, there is still opportunity to talk with them, to visit, to have a facebook relationship, to kiss and make up.
Death has always been sad, but sad for those left behind. The person that has passed has gone somewhere better? I don't know about this, but they are not here to tell us. I will not tell you what I think. I will not tell you about God, heaven or whether I believe this or I believe you close your eyes and life turns off like a light switch. I still have many questions. A lifetime of questions.
What I do know is that I miss Marybeth terribly. I think of her daily. I never believed that cancer was going to take her until the day before she passed. I went to see her. I spent my final time with her, listening to her family members, but not talking with her because she was too weak to speak. I spent my final moment with her whispering silly things to her along with I love you because I was in shock that all this time we had known she had cancer, I was too naive to realize the end result. I didn't know what to say to her. I don't know what knowing would have done, I don't know what it would have changed or if it would have made things worse, but I do know that it took me a year to talk about this.
March 3, 2013 I went out with a friend. We decided to write messages to Marybeth. We each brought a rose with us. We wrote messages on the petals and threw them in the river. I do not know what my friend wrote and my friend did not know what I wrote, but we stood side by side writing on each petal and tossing them into the river which took them away. I wrote words about how I feel, questions I wanted to know, song lyrics, her name, I drew her pictures and I cried. It was a peaceful day for me because I finally figured out in that year that had passed what I wanted to say to her on that last day.
I have not received any answers and I really did not expect to. I still miss her terribly. I am glad that I spent my day, a year later, doing something and trying to still talk with her, see her, visit with her. I love you Mb.
My first attempt on an Ad... Got the inspiration from CVR's(seeveeaar) blog on Cancer !!!
Used the ring which I got during Halloween ;)
Please see it in Large...
A message to all:
Until yesterday I had been absent from flickr for about six weeks due to a health situation.
In early February at my annual medical check-up, my doctor noticed something amiss on my blood work report and sent me to a Urologist for further tests. After the tests I was informed that I had early-stage, but extremely aggressive, Prostate Cancer.
On February 25 I had my prostate removed via a robotic surgery procedure. The pathology report indicated good news, the cancer had not spread elsewhere. It appears that I dodged the bullet however it still makes my skin crawl when I think about all the times in the past that I used some lame excuse to delay or totally skip my annual check-up. If I had done that this year it might have been a fatal mistake.
I urge all of you, especially those over 40, to get your annual medical check-up on time, every time. Modern medical science can do some amazing things, but without early detection your chances can rapidly diminish.
-Rod
From The Independent:
The Governor's press secretary, Aaron McLear, insisted yesterday that it was simply a "weird coincidence" that the email had acrostically spelled out an obscenity. He claimed that the sheer volume of the vetoes that Mr Schwarzenegger has been forced to pass in recent years meant "something like this was bound to happen". ...
But the claim met with a healthy dose of scepticism: the words cited by McLear are four letters long, a length relatively likely to crop up at random. The mathematical probability of the seven-letter phrase ... doing the same is 26 to the power of seven – or about 8,031,810,176 – to one.
"Message Traffic: Lance Corporal C. M. Wolfe (Long Beach, California), copies a message during an operation northwest of Da Nang. The H & S Company communicator is a member of the 2d Battalion, 7th Marines [2/7], 1st Marine Division (official USMC photo by Lance Corporal D. J. Brush)."
From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Farewell messages written by employees of the North American Division (NAD) to Church employees in the World Headquarters prior to NAD moving to its new office building. NAD physically relocated September 2017.
[Photos: Mylon Medley/ANN]
Speakers talked about the path to college in English and Spanish at "Destino Universidad' Sept. 8, 2012 at Cal State Fullerton. news.fullerton.edu/2012fa/college-prep.asp
Photo by Stephen Weissbart
Ever seen that scene from Lord of the Rings where 'the beacons are lit'. Well, here's an example of one of those from real (albeit historical) life.
Near Kazbegi, Georgia.
The other screen on Trg Bana Jelacica showed a peculiar video loop of dancing schoolchildren, this one mostly showed a Microsoft error message.
watched this first thing when I woke up thismorning. made me laugh, and made me really homesick at the same time.
oh and you can hear the cat meow in the background, she was curious what the noise was. haha.
I wasn't going to post this, but then I saw this image by Aaron this morning and was kind of amazed at how similar we "saw." I love that sort of thing. :-)
I am quite behind on going through images and I have to move things to my external drive before I can even begin because I'm out of room, but I was up at the König's Saturday-Sunday and have some nice shots from a lovely weekend, including my daily photos for each day. I got home yesterday evening feeling newly sick (even though I was sick last week, this is new), so I just laid around until 10pm or so, when I went to bed. I'll catch up with y'all soon enough.
Cobourg | ON
Shots right outside Newcomb Studios in Cobourg.
Thanks to my buddy Curtis Skeete for his assistance!
Strobist
SB-600 Camera Right&Left
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A small part of my large collection of sweet messages from my best friend and other half <3 Featuring a letter and part of a gift (the handmade heart container) from our first Christmas, a note that was left on my mirror when he left for work one day, a sticky note with positive vibes for my first day of school for a semester I was really nervous for, and the box with the cutest ring in it for our 2nd anniversary. Definitely, the best messages I could have lying around giving me the best vibes and the most love.
**It definitely looks like it says, "I love you, stupid." But it really says, "I love you stupid amounts." ;)