Aiming For Real

I learned

on our bike ride yesterday 

Wasatch Over Wasatch W.O.W.

that it isn't about always having a smooth ride

It's about showing up

and climbing back on the saddle

even when I feel like falling apart

from the crash

It's in those moments

when I doubt myself

that I find the strength

to keep going forward

no matter how scared I am

I remind myself

that every step forward
no matter how small
is still progress
I'm not aiming for perfect - I'm aiming for real.

 

Last Night's Ride

through the beautiful fall leaves

by the Utah Olympic Park

was lovely

and sunny

& even though we are sick with colds

we still made it up the hill

 

Become an ICON

Intermountain Chapter of Oncology Nurses

Raffle Prizes

Food & drinks

Abbie our child life specialist from HCI came to speak about talking to children about Cancer

Lunch from Zupas

& Art Therapy

 

Sometimes all you need is Fall

& Spaghetti

Park City

Newpark Resort

ICONS

Fall Conference

Martin is still sick

but he came and slept

while I hot tubbed

and set up

for the conference

tomorrow 

New PJ's for my birthday from Lara

 

White Rabbit

My niece, Kailey sent me this photo from the wedding last month.
Thank you @goodluckwhiterabbit

 

She Will Come Back

More Firefly

 "When you finally realize that Joy is less fireworks, more firefly, less orchestra, more birdsong, she will come back much more often. For Joy will not fight with the fast pace of this life.

She is not in the shiny or the new, she breathes in the basic, simmers in the simple, and dances in the daily to and fro.

Joy has been beckoning you for many a year my friend, you are just too busy doing, to see.  

The very next time Joy wraps her quiet warmth around you, as the garden embraces your weary body in it's wildness, tip her a nod, she doesn't stay long. 

But if you are a gracious host...

 

Joy comes back." 

 

This lovely poem was sent to me by my sister Monet today. It is in a new book - Growing Brave by Donna Ashworth. 

Here's to Joy, may you know her well.  

Silly Little Life

Some more photos from Millcreek Canyon

on Sunday 

because

at the end of the day

it's just me and my silly little life.

So I will enjoy it. 

Be the person I want to be.