A year ago...

A very long time has passed since my previous post so I suspect I may be writing only to myself at this point but if that's the case so be it. Just about a year ago now, Lenore, James, and I met my mom and dad for a camping weekend at Scenic State Park. I wasn't feeling good the whole weekend and had been battling a sore throat for a couple weeks. The following Monday I went to the clinic and within the following 10 days my life changed pretty dramatically. As that ominous Anniverary approaches I can say that I feel pretty lucky to be where I am at the moment. I will have more CT scans again next months so some anxiety is starting to build about that but I really am feeling like everything is back to normal -- whatever that is or was. In another sense, I know that nothing will ever be normal in quite the same ho-hum, mundane way. Everything seems just that much more interesting and vibrant, that much crisper, wetter, darker, brighter, colder, warmer...