I like all of you am rolling in and out of the minutes, the hours, the days, the months and yes the years. I do not know if the expression that I heard so many times that times goes faster when your older is true, but it would appear that way at this time. I don’t really know why but it seems to be going faster and faster.

Life and events around the world are unfolding at lightening speed.

I am so grateful that I am here still despite the things that I have and am enduring daily. The saddest parts of my days is the constant crappy news that I read and see on the television or finally hear or the radio.

I was at the Y today at the live strong program and was on the exercise bike. It is equipped with a elaborate computer info center and television screen. As I went through my exercise program the television was on and the sound was muted. I glanced at the screen and the text of the conversation was scrolling along televisions picture. So the twilight zone I found myself in was this. The crap about the election and all of the people that I do not trust . I do not care about party don’t like anyone. The news about terrorists. Warnings of bombings, beheadings etc. You can’t say Christmas. The text just kept going in the meantime one of the other cancer patients sat down beside me on the next machine and smiled. She said hi Dan and I looked at her beautiful face. She was sitting there with her head scarf on. She said how are you and I composed my self quickly by the grace of God and said good with a big smile . The inner turmoil of all of the evil in this world was not going to be vented onto the beautiful lady. Within one minute one of the program counselors came by to check in on us and when they engaged and he  assisted her I was able to say a couple of prayers to allow me to be restored to a peaceful place.

The point is this.  I am sure this is not what God had in mind when he created the world. What is it that makes people be so cruel to oneanother. No one is any better than anyone else. I just looked at my friends there who have been fighting so hard and struggling along with me at the Y and thought these people are the best. They are the hero’s, they struggle and they reach out to anyone and everyone with a smile and a kind word. They are not me centered they are not complaining they are laughing and loving. There is a Spirit of joy.  We are not all of the same faith or belief necessarily but that makes no difference either.

Its a sad commentary that society finds itself here in this moment. I pray everyday for common sense and civility to be restored.

I am grateful for everything I have and hope that this Thansgiving this world will wake up and begin the healing process that only goodness and Godliness can bring.

I am beginning to appreciate that the fact that cancer came to destroy my life but it has only blessed me in ways that I could never have anticipated.

I am not a victim of cancer anymore than anyone of my friends that has been through it, who has survived it or who has succumbed to it.

There is a Spirit of God that is joy, that is love that is hopeful and will not be defeated by any story or any of the many idiots on the TV .

I will close with this term ;

my mom use to say.

Knowing what you stand for, Limits what you fall for.

Important words to live by these days.

God bless you all. Happy thanksgiving.

Danny and family

please pray for our friends with illness and cancer especially our friend Paul S. and JD

and pray for my daughters friend a young man from Connecticut  Santiago who took his own life. He was a wonderful young man and will be missed.

May God bless him and his family. Amen.