"You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich."
Isabel Allende (1942 – ) Chilean-American novelist
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So I am grateful and happy to tell you that my routine scans were just routine and all is well and awesome in Mamie-land! I have some small technicalities to take care of but no worries! It is all good!!
It got me to thinking about how lucky I am to have the life I have. How happy I am to have good people surrounding me celebrating these milestones with me. I am the joyful recipient of many phone calls, emails and pm's this week from family and friends checking in on my health and our family's status having given our daughter over to University life. (btw, she is more than fine....loves it there! we have made our peace).
Got to thinking about how rich my life is, how truly RICH. And I am thinking about the measure of a life and how you give yourself credit for what you have accomplished...and how you forgive yourself your humanness. It occurs to me that I was blessed to be able to turn the health experiences that I have dealt with into a way to serve my fellowman. It is a win, I think that as long as I am able, I will help to minimize the burden that cancer lays on families if I can and that I will use my corporate contacts to connect the corporate giving to the actual person in need. It makes me feel like a million bucks!!
Surely I am not the only person who is enjoying being rich by helping others...will you share with me? What is it that you do and how does it make you feel to do it? How are you making an impact on mankind in your own little part of the world? I imagine that we could fill an entire book of goodness by sharing the stories.
I know you are being a force for good in big ways and in small. I can feel it when we talk and when we write to one another here....so, here is my question....
How rich are you? I am quite loaded! :)))
Peace,
Mamie
