a little magic............

So, I haven't been keeping up with my posting. I guess I was too dependent on the N-Som and was writing in the wee hours of my sleeplessness and when that passed and I began sleeping 15 or 20 hours a day I just couldn't find the whatever to sit down and say something clever. I finally realized I wasn't all that clever to begin with and while this blog is about my tho'ts and my reaction to events in my life, it really isn't about me. Or at least, it ain't spozed to be just about me.
I'm a 70 year old Diabetic with cancer, undergoing chemotherapy which tends to focus my tho'ts pretty much on myself. I'm sorry but that's what humans pretty much do all the time. On the other hand, I have every expectation of beating the cancer and dragging out my unexceptional life for another 10 or 20 years. 30 may be pushing it but what the heck? I just saw a 97 year old woman on the telly that just ran for Congress. She seemed a heckuva lot smarter (wiser?) than her opponent and it's a shame she didn't win. God knows that she couldn't have done worse than the nincompoops that presently represent us.
Anyway, back to me. I'm a lot better off than a great many people. I know what I'm fighting and I have the help of a lot of friends and family and the resources of a great medical center (Kaiser Permanente) to help me so in many respects, I'm way ahead of the game.
I have a long-time friend in Kentucky named Mollie Burke Phillips who needs a liver and it seems to be touch and go whether she's going to get one in time. Mollie and I share a birthday tho' she's several years younger than me. She's a curly headed blonde with a big smile and a bigger heart. Up until a few years ago when her liver began to kick her butt, Mollie cooked apple butter every Autumn. She did it the old way, the way my Grandma Smith did it, outside over an open fire, in a large iron pot. Now I don't know that cooking apple butter in that fashion imparts any special flavor but I know what you do get is magic. And the world needs magic.
And for the magic to work, you need to believe.