Positively happy, smiling, vibrating atoms

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Alas, it is snowing again. Or, shall I say still snowing? It's been a record year for snowfall. I'm not sure if I should celebrate breaking a record like this. The wife hates winter. She hates snow. She hates everything about this time of year. I repeatedly ask her why we live here if she hates it so much. Yet, here we are. 

I don't mind the snow; in fact, I am in favor of all four seasons. I'm okay when it's 100 degrees out and I'm okay when it's 10 degrees out. I mean, I can go inside and be warm (or, cool off, as the case may be). That said, the -25 degrees this winter have been a bit much, even for me.

In case you're concerned, the negative numbers didn't slow my ice cream consumption. I'm a true addict. The only thing that has slowed me down is that my favorite BK is closed due to fire... and, no one makes better cones than them. I'm still in mourning. I've found that ice cream is just as delicious while sitting on the couch as it is in the drive through at my second home. I triumph over winter by eating ice cream, watching Netflix and embracing my increasingly gelatinous buttocks.

As for our Warrior, she is beating the shit out of her cancer. Double mastectomy went without a hitch and she was home in less than a day. (Thank you, insurance companies. Asswipes.) She is preparing for chemo and further treatment. I had never heard of Herceptin until I learned she would be having this medication every three weeks for a year.

A year.  (Have I said, "Fuck you, cancer" lately?)

Our warrior has the most amazing attitude. She continues to ooze positivity. It's not fake, either. She really is finding the positive wherever and whenever she can. It blows me away. No pity party for our Warrior. Thankfully, she is also very smart. Although she doesn't let things stop her, she is wise enough to know that it takes time and energy to heal. It would be easy to get ignorant after surgery... but, she has followed doctor's orders to a T and is thus healing in a most magnificent manner. I know chemo and ongoing treatment will try to suck the life force out of her but I have no doubt that she will keep plugging along, even on her worst days.

That doesn't mean she won't have bad days or that she doesn't cry or that she won't have really bad days where finding one positive thing will require every shred of her very being. It just means she'll have a bad day, do what she has to do and she will continue to shine more positivity in a day than most people shine in a week. As friends, we will gladly sit with her on those bad days, with the most supportive, compassionate non-judgmental stance that we can muster. It is a privilege to be the holder of space during such times. Once the bad day passes, we will celebrate triumphs.

I don't often speak of energy work or holistic healing. You know, things like accupunture, reiki, reflexology, qigong, chakra balancing, meditation, crystal healing.... I shall speak of it now. We're all made of energy. Everything is energy. When it comes down to it we're all just vibrating atoms in a vibrating universe. So, energy work makes complete sense to me. I wrote my master's thesis on shamanism as part of traditional healing in a psychiatric in-patient setting. (I'm not sure what my professor thought when she heard my idea for the thesis but she went with it, so here I am with a bunch of letters after my name.) I am an advocate for energy work and work hard to incorporate it into daily life.

What does energy work have to do with our Warrior? I believe positivity is part of her energy healing. The Universe is listening. Her vibrating atoms are listening. She is listening. It's hard for the Law of Attraction to argue with someone who is facing adversity with such pervasive positivity. For another thing, I believe her openness to energy work furthers her healing. And, I believe that her vibrating atoms get our atoms vibrating...

....it feels good to be around her. Seriously. You might mistakenly think that being around someone going through cancer treatment has to be painfully depressing. It doesn't have to be like that at all. It isn't like that at all when you're with her. Her atoms don't lie--they can't lie. I practice holistic healing, including Reiki and chakra-balancing. Whether in person or by distance, I can sense her happy atoms. Although the cancer is giving our warrior a run for the money, she continues to vibrate in a most wonderful manner.

If you're asking why she has cancer if she's so positive, I have no answer. (I think that's a sucky, unfair question, anyway.)
The fact is that she has cancer.
She has cancer and she is treating her cancer.
She is facing cancer like the warrior she is.
She is a warrior in the midst of healing.
She is positive beyond measure, a lesson to all of us with less-than-happily vibrating atoms.


The question is irrelevant to me. 

What IS relevant is that the healing process is in action and that her atoms are vibrating in a most happy, healing manner. If you'd like to postulate on why she has cancer, I ask you to go elsewhere. Think about something else. Keep your negative vibrations far way from this healing warrior and her warrior friends. Complain about the snow or the cold or the fire at BK with me. I'm all good with it. I'll accept you just as you are, where you are. I'll work to soothe your soul and seek healing from the Universe. I'll listen and probably commiserate. But, know that I'll have happy, smiling, vibrating positivity shooting out my ass. It can't help but shoot toward you.

Shooting.
Out.
My.
Ass.

Diarrhea of positivity. Rainbows and unicorns, bitches. Rainbows and unicorns.

You, dear reader, have been warned.
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