Still Here, Still Queer
May 26, 2010
In recent days life has changed in our household. Since my last post D and I have become the primary caregivers for her mom following a recent diagnosis of advanced stage four lung cancer. Everything else has taken back seat in our priorities to being with and taking care of her mom and that’s how it should be. We would have it no other way.
I’m sharing this bit from our personal lives with you to invite your prayers for my mother-in-law, my beloved wife, and all those fortunate enough to stand in the wide circle of relationships with this good woman, as well as to ask your understanding in what has been and will continue to be some rather sporadic posting on my part in the coming weeks. My intention nearly every day for the past few weeks has been to set aside time to blog but by the time night comes I find the hours have slip away without getting to what I had intended to do upon waking, either because there were too many things that needed to get done or because my concentration on anything beyond the immediate moment in our extended family is as productive as burnt toast.
While new posts may temporarily be infrequent in coming, my blog stats and the comments being left show that new (and no doubt incredibly cool to the point of being off the hook) readers continue to drop in here for a look around and so for that reason I’m going to be occasionally posting an encore post at the top of the blog. That’s right. I’m going to be a good little lesbian and do my part in reducing my digital footprint by going green and re-cycling a few posts from the past. I hope that in re-posting them it could stir up some fresh insights from you that you would then take the time to share with the rest of us in the comments section.
But before I raise the curtain for an encore, I’m thinking it’s time for a very special giveaway but first I need to put the giveaway post together so go busy yourselves for a few minutes. Update your status on Facebook, twitter your tweets, empty out your spam, or watch this and learn. Then come back and see what what’s under Box Number 1.
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Sweet Hope Cookies
May 26th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Blessings on you all as you move through this difficulty and strangely graced time. You already know the gifts that live in these hard places.
I will be holding you all tenderly in prayer.
Aleksa
May 26th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Hello I just to let u know that u and ur fam will be in my prayers. Life is hard enough without everything else that is added to it. My partner and I have been going through so many ups and downs. In the last couple of years and sometimes I wonder is it all worth it. Then I realize that love is worth fighting for especially when its true. I really enjoy reading ur blogs and I am so grateful to have. Found ur website. You and ur family continue to stay strong because we all know GOD will never put more on us than we can handle.
May 26th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
“Everything else has taken back seat in our priorities to being with and taking care of her mom and that’s how it should be. We would have it no other way.”
And we would have it no other way either. Hugs and prayers to both of you.
May 27th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Prayers ascending for you and yours! When real life relations need love, care and attention, those of us who know you from a distance can and will wait, and will continue to hold a space for you. Peace to you and your beloved and her mom.
May 28th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
You and D have all of my prayers, may God hold you now with His precious hands so tight that you leave an impression in His palm.
As for the video at the end of this post — we all need to do that, every day!
June 5th, 2010 at 1:42 am
thanks Anita for your recent posts. You are all in my prayers!! Peace.