Calendar Girl Blog: Be Here Now

May 30th, 1981 was my first and only wedding date. If I had followed through by actually walking down the aisle and declaring my 'I do's', my life today would be very different.

First, I would be a widow. My fiance became very ill shortly after I bid my good-byes. He died at 30 following a successful lung transplant. The transplanted lung was cancerous.

I could have re-married. I could have had a child. I might have stayed in the very small rural community of my young adulthood and farmed the farm that we had yet to purchase.

But instead, my path lead me elsewhere. Here. To my old house, in my artistic city, on my friendly street. I create my work. I do something unique in the world. I focus on the present moment, this exact moment, as I type away, slowly, not so gracefully and do my best to be my best. To be awake. Wide awake and fully aware.

I look at my calendar. And I marvel. What a remarkable journey this life of mine is.

My dad would say "Who'da thunk?"

I think breathing has something to do with it.

Calendar Girl.

Other Links and Blogs of mine. Maybe even of interest to you...or maybe not...
I'm just sayin.

Breast of Canada Calendar
Calendar Girl Blog
The Breast Views Blog
My Menopause Blog