❤️ DAVID ❤️

“No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together.”

- Unknown -

Tuesday, February 14

Oh my sensitive, kind, marshmallowy-centred, spiritual and loving soul, David.

My guy. The almond butter to my jam. The sugar to my spice. We go together like Wine & Cheese, Campfires & S'Mores, Unicorns & Rainbow Glitter!

As much as this has been my breast cancer journey, I have never walked it alone. I am surrounded by amazing people and am so grateful for my Love-Humans and of course, my steadfast #1 Love-Human, David.

As a partner, lover, supporter and caring human, I know this has been hard on him. The cancer journey has been challenging for both of us.

This is David's journey too.

While I tend to be a woman of extremes, David is less so. His many years of personal development, spiritual quest, years of studying with Deepak and getting his Chopra Meditation certification has gifted me (thankfully) with my very own in-house "zen master"!

In his words to a friend: "while we have moments of sadness or frustration...for the most part we are succeeding in neither denying those feelings, nor being permanently captured by them. Both of us are largely aiming for "mu"(meaning: "not have; without", a keyword in Buddhism), which is not "negative", nor "positive", but recognizing that one has the option of just stepping off of the "negative or positive" sliding scale.

Both of us do feel tired and distracted, as it is work to strive for "mu", and the concerns and logistics and appointments do displace time & energy that would otherwise go towards making progress on more ordinary life projects.

So that's our condition: tired, distracted, feeling "displaced from ordinary life", working on striving for "mu", and feeling grateful for the many fortunate aspects of Rosie's prognosis. From the moment I first heard that Rosie did have cancer, I felt my self-assigned "job" was to be a point of calm for her to relate to, and so "remain calm" is what I have been aiming for, and for the most part achieving."

And that right there is my rock, my calm and loving David. ❤️