SANDPOINT, IDAHO, ME LIKE

So, I suspect you figured that I am in Sandpoint. Right you are. I have been here for nearly a month. I did not expect to be here for so long, but going through the two large storage areas and emptying all the boxes takes a bit of time. I had two so called estate sales and moving the furniture and house hold goods up and down the stairs was no small feat. My friend here in Sandpoint helped me deal with this ordeal and I must say that she is one hell of a friend. She is definitely a keeper!!! She is a person who I consider a friend, a member of my family, one whom I actually like and a person who I can count on!!! It is people like her that make life rewarding.

However, it was not all work, although I can not tell that from all my aches and pains. But I still had fun. We went to Canada and spent a night there. We went to the beach, we sat at the lake, we went hiking. We walked and just enjoyed nature and the beauty around us. If Lewis was still with me, I believe we would have bought another place in Sandpoint. I so wish he was!!! It has been hard being here without him. Looking at all the beautiful nature around me and knowing that he too would have been elated and smiling at the same things I was. It is not right that he is gone, but I have no choice but to persevere.

Soon I leave for New York City. My son has finally proposed to his girlfriend. So, I am going to NY to celebrate the occasion with them. I am so pleased. They have been together for many years and they love each other, so what more is there to say, but congratulations!!!

Oh, yeah, my health. Well, I feel good. My medication is finally agreeing with me and if not for the pills I take in the morning, I would not acknowledge that I ever had cancer. But, there is always a but, since having my cataract operation, over five weeks ago, my eye is still dilated. I am a bit concerned. I have an appointment to see the eye doctor the day after I get home to Miami. At which point I will know if it is something worth worrying about. So until then, it is just another fly in the ointment.

Stay well my friends. Be happy, find something in your life to make you smile! And enjoy every day as if it was your last!!! It just might be your last! It is so true, yet so difficult to accept. As you know; there is always two sides to a coin, a glass can be half full or half empty, you can see your life one day so different from the next. What I am getting at here; is that you can interpret your life, your situation in many different ways at the same time, it is how you look at it that will determine the affect that it will have on you. My advice and my mantra is to be optimistic, start seeing the glass half full and you will find that you will be happier and smile much more frequently. Not that my life has been such a picnic, it hasn’t been. But I do find happiness in my daily life. I laugh, I cry and I go to bed at the end of each day looking forward to the next.

Life is not merely Surviving!!!!