More like peacefully aglow… for my first week back to BSM in I’m not sure how long. A little glow from the Pacific Northwest… and yes, it’s raining!
Join Tracey over at Mother May I for more Best Shots this Monday!
The subject of this weeks Best Shot Monday is just downright spooky. We are here in Northern Virginia visiting hubby’s family. His sister has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and only last week began her very aggressive chemotherapy treatment. When the chemo is over she will lose a breast.
After managing their way through the trial of the diagnosis, the information gathering and the just plain old life changing nature of the experience in a very short time, she is now feeling for the most part lousy from the chemo. She will lose her fertility and her hair. But with this most aggressive treatment her prognosis is good.
Here’s the deal. She’s turning 40 next month. She’s married. She has three kids, ages 6, 3 and not yet 2. She has a tremendous fight ahead of her. I don’t know that she quite has her head around what lies before her, I don’t know that anyone would… or could. But she is keeping a fabulous attitude. She smiles. She laughs. She is moving forward with incredible strength, grace and humour.
She’ll shave her head on Wednesday. And in anticipation of that event she asked me to shoot a portrait. The quintessential ‘before‘. She rallied, gussied, put on a smile and sat by a tree nearby her home. Despite being tired, feeling sick and emotionally exhausted!
In honour of all those battling this disease and my dear SIL, with a big shout out to Caring Bridge, where she shares this ordeal with family, friends and others- a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend- a superhero….
funny…
generous…
alive…
loyal…
loving…
vibrant…
joyous…
strong.
My sister’s oldest child, SoyBean. And Zip. In the woods.
Bright and beautiful. I miss my sister…. Hey Mango!
There’s more Best Shots over at Mother May I….
That has surely been the question bouncing around between the various voices in my head lately.
My stripping images of all but the slightest tinge of colour has reached OCD proportions recently, whether they be kid, client, or otherwise.
So, as I continue to explore this inner conflict, sucking colour from every image before me, and as I wait for the passing of yet another phase in my life in photographs, I present my Best Shot Monday…. desaturated… and not.
A Little Sparkle
BC Cherries! And cherry stained faces! Perfect, plump, absolute edible joy and bliss….
There’s more joy in Best Shots at Mother May I….
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…we need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Following a downright beautiful, hectic and so very crowded Canada Day long weekend, things calmed down a little here this weekend past- July 4th, to American friends. Enjoying a little peace and quiet for this Best Shot Monday at Slurping Life…. there’s also more of my Zip in his tire swing…
An outstanding long weekend such as this has been ripe with all kinds of shots… What, with happy kids, all the sun, the lake, and our reliable little boat. We’ve waited a long time for this weather and we are drinking it up!
Newfoundland (today’s projected high: 10C… ack!), I apologize for these, on this Best Shot Monday! Oh, and it’s hosted by Melody.
My Best Shot Monday came yesterday. A true, if brief, taste of spring.
My Fidgey and a pair of nine week old Bassett Hounds. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm………………….
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -Orison Swett Marden
Say It!
… when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. - John Keats
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! - Andrew Carnegie
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. -Henry David Thoreau
