Happy Thanksgiving

I hope all of you had as wonderful a Thanksgiving as I did.  Obviously this was a rather special one for me :-)
Today has been doubly great, because I seem to have so much more energy than I usually do.  I've been going all day, just now slowed down enough to do my blog and yet I'm not exhausted, I'm not really even tired.  I think part of this is because I'm doing more pranayama and I walked a mile today - the exercise gets me going.  I found a great way to get my walking in from one of my neighbors.  I do laps around the second floor mezzanine, it's great, that way I'm never far from my room, there are chairs & sofas in case I were to need a rest, plus the weather doesn't effect me.  Today it was cold and rainy so walking outside wasn't an option, but inside it was perfect!  I even found a free pedometer application for the iphone, so I know how far I've walked and how long. 

I heard Lifetime was having a movie marathon today and tomorrow and had planned to see if any of the movies were Christmas shows, but I didn't even have time for that, I was just too busy!  Go figure!  I'm a girl who loves her Christmas shows, so we're talking I was busy not to be able to see if any of the movies were Christmas movies!  I feel like I'm really getting back to normal.  For the past month, I haven't done much and that in itself really drags you down.  So it's great that I'm moving again, it really feels good. 

I started reading a wonderful book, and it's really appropriate for today: "Living Life as a Thank You" it's really inspiring and some of the stories really parallel my own.  I highly recommend it if anyone's interested.  I feel very grateful for the amazing outpouring of prayers, love, advice, aneqdotes, inspiring stories, hats, earrings and lists of resources, I'm overwhelmed by it all and I hope to find my unique way to give back.  So, if any of you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.  This not only warms my heart, it restores my faith in humanity.  Every day we're inundated with all the bad that's happening in the world, but there's so much good happening that we just don't hear about - we really need to focus on the good it's so much more uplifting and inspiring.  All the love I'm receiving makes me strive to be a better person, this really is how each of us can make the world a better place. 

It's interesting, I don't think in terms of "if" I get better, it's "when" I get better and when that happens (which it's happening now, it's a process) but I know that I have something to give and discovering what exactly that is and then giving it is what I have to do, I feel like somehow it's my destiny and this cancer is taking me on a journey to make this discovery.  It's already altering the way I look at life in such a way that I'm open to discovering and following whatever this destiny of mine is.  It just keeps amazing me how beautiful an experience this is when in the past I would never have considered describing it in that way.  Ah, what a difference perspective can make. 

Well, once again, I will bid you good night.  Sweet dreams.  I look forward to our time together tomorrow.