surgery went fine. home now. thanks to @Heather (E. M.) and @Lisa C. for rides (and the latter for at-hospital errands -- and possibly also for keeping my mom company in the waiting room :)) and @Mom for mom-stuff. housemate cooked me dinner after i got home. i'd been thinking i might take church folk up on their offer to bring me food since it ( Read more... )

"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy."
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"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." --Anne Lamott

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