Senator Kennedy

Ted Kennedy. Brain cancer. I'm sorry for him. For his family. Very sorry. One of the articles I read just sickened me. They are still talking about the drug Lou took as if it were manna from heaven. It is still called the latest and greatest, and it wasn't the latest and greatest, THEN, now 3 years ago, how can it be NOW? It is NOT. It extends life 2 months on average, from 12 months to 14 months. Oh wow everyone. If there is any good at all that can come from Mr. Kennedy being struck by this insidious disease, it will be to raise awareness of it, and hopefully, funding for better treatments. Speaking of funding, TEAM BERES raised $8,000 for the American Brain Tumor Walk a few weeks ago. I'm really proud of that. Out of over 100 teams registered, we ranked 15th in funds raised. Not bad. Next year, even better. Please pray for Mr. Kennedy and all brain tumor patients. They really do need it. On another note, perhaps one day soon, it really will be spring in Chicago.......brrrrr!

Greys

Wow. I'm blown away from watching the last two weeks of Grey's Anatomy. It has to do with brain tumors. They're doing brain tumors. McDreamy is doing brain tumors, to be specific. So, I would watch McDreamy take care of a splinter, but brain tumors...gotta watch that. Powerful stuff going on there. Too much. It brings alot back. Too much. So, I watch it anyway, right. Well, it's more than the brain tumor stuff. It's about love, too. Love that others couldn't see, didn't believe in. McDreamy did though. He saw it. He let his patient believe , in love. He let her wait, and wait, and wait, for her lover that seemed imaginary to everyone else, because she had a brain tumor that could cause imaginary things like Cinderella stories. Seemed implausible to everyone else around her. Seemed like a story created by a brain tumor gone awry. After waiting for a few hours, they give up, and do the procedure, without her seeing him. She doesn't wake up after the surgery. And the lover showed up, too late. He was real. And she was Cinderella. Only she didn't get the fairy tale ending. Love is all there is you know. That much, I do know. Love is all there is. I can't believe a tv show has turned me into a puddle of tears, but there it is.

Mommy Moments

I love this picture. To me, it is such a great snapshot of motherhood. My dear niece and her sweet daughter. A day we went out for a walk, while Lou was sick. I remember the day. It was the beginning of summer. That summer, they came to keep me company often. Anna brought such joy to our household while life was draining out of it. I remember this mommy moment. Both wearing blueberry blue. Both wearing their hair in ponytails. The mother leaning into the child...letting her be on her own, but right there should she fall. So sweet. A perfect mommy moment, in an otherwise very imperfect time. How quickly those mommy moments disappear. It was a strange Mother's Day. Maybe not "strange", but different. It was the first Mother's Day spent without the reasons I am a mother with me! One son off on a trip, the other in school in New York. My first Mother's Day, sans sons. I was not alone, however. I had three wonderful friends visiting (a long time, dear friend and her two sisters, now new dear friends of mine), all mother's as well. One visiting her son who attends college here. We made ourselves a great Mother's Day brunch, then it was on to our own activities, I to the Cubs game (in the rain and cold of course), they to visit the son in college. I realized that it was as it should be I suppose. My sons are off doing what they should be doing, what we want our children to do - to be independent! I guess that's a mommy moment of some sort, if you can look at it that way. I guess you have to look at it that way. Otherwise, you'd be miserable. Happy Mother's Day, all. May you have many, many mommy moments.