Timing

This is a totally untallied observation, but it seems as if once a week someone in my sphere of friends and acquaintances is sharing with me how someone they know has just been diagnosed with breast cancer.

What's up with that? Is it that more women are being diagnosed with breast cancer because there is more of it? Is it that early detection has become so much better? Or is that I'm entering a season of life where instances of breast cancer simply become more common among women "my age?" Whatever the reason, the numbers are mind boggling.

All that has a dark cloud hanging over my head. Blah.

But wait, what's next to me on the couch? Ah, one of God's many gifts: my faithful and loving golden girl. Don't know what I'd do without her little spirit-lifting face. Happiness now.

“We treat our dogs as if they were 'almost human': that is why they really become 'almost human' in the end.” -- C.S. Lewis

Collage o' the Day: Did I mention I had my trees trimmed last week? The guy in the bottom right photo is in the silver maple and the other guy is in the honey locust. These pics don't adequately capture just how high up they were in those trees ...