Today is Gratitude.
Our Holly Days have been mostly derailed this year by Deena’s cancer. We finally managed to light our Menorah last night for the first time after our big Christmas/Generosity Feast. Today, thinking about this very scary detour we have taken, I was surprised to realize how lucky she has been in this.
Cancer, The Big C, in the media, and in so many lives (our mom wasted away for two years under the curse of lung cancer) is always this painful, courageous, bald-headed battle. But Deena had cancer for just a couple of weeks, at the end of which she was anointed cancer free (for now, we have our fingers crossed for her quarterly scan) having only had to suffer through essentially the same operation (the knee replacement whose prep revealed the cancer) she had already been scheduled for. Pretty f*ing cool.
Boy, are we grateful! Happy Holly Days!
HOLLY DAYS 