tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post6760881673101943317..comments2023-08-07T03:39:00.560-04:00Comments on Life Changing Cancer: Our First KissLynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15597668719819089422noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-17419989370080180962008-04-08T14:16:00.000-04:002008-04-08T14:16:00.000-04:00Hi...I was amazed to discover a soul in such a sim...Hi...<BR/><BR/>I was amazed to discover a soul in such a similar situation dealing with it all in such a similar way. If you'd care to, please visit my blog at http://ohsocosy.wordpress.com.<BR/>Perhaps we can share something?<BR/><BR/>TonyOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-88613442719024190922007-06-03T19:17:00.000-04:002007-06-03T19:17:00.000-04:00Patty,Reading this, I am struck by how very Blesse...Patty,<BR/>Reading this, I am struck by how very Blessed you and Lynne are to have found each other. The "match made in Heaven" may be a cliche, but I think it fits here. I love reading the memories you share, and I'm touched that you are willing to share them with all of us. <BR/>I pray that you'll be able to take another trip to PTown at the end of this month, to be where so much of your life together has taken place.<BR/>Peace and Love,<BR/>Mary MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-80121707551453554642007-05-29T10:16:00.000-04:002007-05-29T10:16:00.000-04:00Patty & LynneEnjoy your special place. With the cr...Patty & Lynne<BR/><BR/>Enjoy your special place. With the crowds gone it should be peaceful for you.<BR/><BR/>SueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-69948616932116578652007-05-29T06:15:00.000-04:002007-05-29T06:15:00.000-04:00{{Hug}}Please know I keep both you and Patty in my...{{Hug}}<BR/>Please know I keep both you and Patty in my thoughts daily.<BR/>Love,<BR/>Carrienoonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01818918783991488866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-29221951139895180112007-05-28T23:01:00.000-04:002007-05-28T23:01:00.000-04:00Patty and Lynne,I'm glad to hear you are returning...Patty and Lynne,<BR/><BR/>I'm glad to hear you are returning to Ptown...a special place for both of you...a time to remember cherished memories...and an opportunity to make new ones. I hope you are able to enjoy one another and be present to the moment.<BR/><BR/>My thoughts and prayers will be with you both...may you know that you are surrounded by love, healing light and peace...as well as a great cloud of witnesses...who walk with you as you seek to navigate this challenging journey. <BR/><BR/>May the smell of the saltair...the touch of a gentle breeze against your skin...the sound of the waves crashing on the seashore...the feel of the sand beneath your feet...the glow of the moonlight...and the colors in the sky from the sun setting on the horizon...comfort your souls... and remind you...you are not alone.<BR/><BR/>Much Love, <BR/>DebbieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-71821423617970106752007-05-28T12:18:00.000-04:002007-05-28T12:18:00.000-04:00Dear Lynne and Patty, I'm back from Florida and...Dear Lynne and Patty,<BR/> I'm back from Florida and the holiday company who were already here when I got home have left. The heat of the day has given me a chance to catch up on the last week of your blog before I head out to work in the gardens. (Strawberries are ripening now.)Time to reflect, time to cry, time to rejoice in our friendship. <BR/> Have a wonderful time in Ptown. I'm wishing you sunsets, an appetite for good food, and a sense of peace. (Lynne, didn't we return a key to Angel's Landing last summer? I'm picturing the two of you enjoying the deck there, although I may have the wrong place.) <BR/>Love to both of you,<BR/>BevAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-55640100029871669812007-05-28T06:46:00.000-04:002007-05-28T06:46:00.000-04:00It's funny that in all of the years that our famil...It's funny that in all of the years that our families have been in Ptown at the same time, we have almost never seen each other there. It is a special place full of memories that stretch back to our beginnings, as lesbians, as couples, as families.<BR/><BR/>I send all of my love for you and for that place. I really want your time there to be wonderful, not preconceived, but just as it is and as it should be.<BR/><BR/>I love you both, LaurieUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07045258520840470458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-10231712233903254092007-05-27T09:11:00.000-04:002007-05-27T09:11:00.000-04:00Patty,...tender sweet memories, woven together in ...Patty,<BR/><BR/>...tender sweet memories, woven together in a rich tapestry of your love. May you and Lynne have many more golden threads to add to the design. <BR/><BR/>love, Sandy and MarkSandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05431547242003437246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-49488249197838615882007-05-27T08:29:00.000-04:002007-05-27T08:29:00.000-04:00Nobody, no thing, no disease or illness can ever e...Nobody, no thing, no disease or illness can ever ever take from people what they have together, what they share and love and create...<BR/><BR/>Angel's Landing sounds absolutely beautiful, you will have some more wonderful memories to take from there.<BR/><BR/>Lynne that is excellent you building upon your strength (and appetite), by small degrees, you have great strength and determination and the bestest of best support!<BR/><BR/>I am angry and sad with you guys, but for now it's Angel's Landing!<BR/><BR/>Peace and strength to you both.<BR/><BR/>PamSiennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15387267690900119245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-90614421087164692802007-05-27T07:58:00.000-04:002007-05-27T07:58:00.000-04:00Patty,I am thinking of you both with great love. ...Patty,<BR/>I am thinking of you both with great love. There truly are no words to express to you my heartfelt feelings so just know that each day you are in my prayers.<BR/><BR/>Much love,<BR/>DarcyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-61661020892759143772007-05-26T21:58:00.000-04:002007-05-26T21:58:00.000-04:00patty- i'm so glad you two are getting away to yo...patty- i'm so glad you two are getting away to your favorite polace in the world- how perfect !!! enjoy- <BR/>love, aliceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-35985464485056513902007-05-26T13:19:00.000-04:002007-05-26T13:19:00.000-04:00Dear Patty and Lynne......This morning, as I strug...Dear Patty and Lynne......This morning, as I struggled to fianlly respond to Lynne's last blog entry, I thought, "I should send Patty a note, too." What I really wanted to do was give you a most wonderful book a friend gave to me as my dad's illness progressed. I guess I've hesitated in "going there", because I don't want you to think I've "thrown in the towel" on Lynne's illness. The book is called, "Final Gifts". It is a book about gifts the dying DO really give us. We need to recognize them ASthey are given. And, as I recall again how Sondra wrote awhile ago, that "life itself is terminal" (and that we sometimes are given a "heads up, we all DO have the opportunity to "pay attention" and love as compassionately as we can EACH and EVERY day, no matter the response, or lack of one....And, as strange as this may seem, WHAT a GIFT we have all received from Lynne, in the giving of self.... in letting us into her world of terminal illness!.....Patty and Lynne, please hurry and make many more memories together. What a testimony your life together,as one, have been to the power of love....As well, it is so clear that, from all this sharing, we are here, truly, to love and to heal one another.....Godspeed, Friends. Love, JamieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-83314336934434305812007-05-26T11:49:00.000-04:002007-05-26T11:49:00.000-04:00Thank you for this wonderful post, Patty. I can h...Thank you for this wonderful post, Patty. I can hardly type due to my tears over such sweet memories. I am so glad you shared them here. When Jan told me you two were heading down to Provincetown next week it was great news. Remember, make more memories, cherish every moment... and all those other cliche sounding things that come to mind. They aren't cliches in this instance. <BR/><BR/>Love you both,<BR/>SondraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32309235.post-63776721177834923342007-05-26T11:20:00.000-04:002007-05-26T11:20:00.000-04:00Patty,It's great to hear from you!! I don't think ...Patty,<BR/>It's great to hear from you!! I don't think the title is out of place at all!! I love hearing your precious memories...it's kind of like getting permission to look through your personal scrapbook!<BR/>Memories are wonderful, aren't they? They are kind of like little truffles of sweet moments to be savored whenever your soul needs comforting....or reminding.<BR/>Sometimes they bring bittersweet tears...but even those tears can heal and be comforting in themselves.<BR/>I remember when my friend Janine was so very sick with malignant melanoma....I woke up in the middle of the night with the urge to write down all the precious, wonderful, wacky, things I remembered about our friendship.<BR/>I took my journal, switched on the bedside light and began to write as the evening breeze blew through my curtains and brushed by me.<BR/>It was at once soothing and cathartic...as I rambled through my words I actually found myself smiling and sometimes even chuckling. I've actually looked back on that writing since....and love to relive that time in my life. Now that some time has passed it is no longer a bittersweet feeling but a wonderful sense of blessing that our souls were able to meet and spend that time together and a reflection on what exactly I've gained and learned from our time together...albeit brief.<BR/>My memories of my dear, departed mother weave through my everyday. There are way too many to write down but they are forever written in my heart, in surprising recognition of a familiar inflection of a phrase that I may inadvertantly say, in the moments of deja vu with my own children...when I catch myself in her role in my own children's life, in the fragrance of the cooking scents that come from a favorite recipe and the wafting, sweet scent of the lilacs she would put in my bedroom when I was a child or send with me in bunches as I prepared to leave after a visit once I'd grown.<BR/> Most times now, though...my mother comes to me in my dreams. They are wonderfully comforting....I swear it is JUST like being with her again...and I awake convinced in the deepest part of my soul that our spirits are still entwined and that there is indeed an eternity. I know she is with me now as I am tied to this earth and helping me through those days when this earthly work gets tough...and whispering of the promise of a sweet restful reward when my work is done.<BR/>Memories are wonderful,aren't they ?....enjoy them and ...I encourage you to write them down! Not because YOU will ever forget them...but because someday your beautiful children will be looking for comfort and little truffles to sweeten their memories...and there they will be...whispering comforting lessons and promises.<BR/>Thank you for sharing your precious memories.What a gift we have in you!<BR/>Lovingly,<BR/>CoriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com