Sound Bites

I have found that I enjoy creating summarizing, 
poetic 'sound bites' to describe various parts of my life.

My current sound bites include: 

JOY and HOPE are back 
but it is still too soon
to LIVE LARGE. 

I have great JOY
but carried on the shoulders
of great SORROW.

Finally,

When describing our life I say,
Gregory is 'even'
and I am 'balanced.'

GIVING allows me such JOY
And what does it cost? Little!

Shoulders

I have been developing a number of "sound bites" to use when people ask me about Gregory and how he is doing and how I am doing. One one hand I could tell long stories about the joys and sorrows of his current condition. And I probably have told them each often! 

So I have decided that less is more and that once the story has been told here on my BLOG I do not need to keep telling it, let alone reliving it. I think this is probably a good thing: Think More, Talk Less.

SOUNDBITES:

Gregory is fine, he's good. (Enough said?)

He is even and that is good.

He is happy, contented, and safe.

Gregory is no where near the man we used to know, but his spirit and soul are still very much in tact.

His CONDITION is much worse but his SITUATION is much better!

My heart is light knowing that Gregory is being well taken care of at Lieberman.

We have much for which to be grateful!

We are blessed. The Universe continues to line up behind us.

I will always carry Grief on one shoulder but have Joy and Comfort on the other.

Sound Bite

"We've been rehearsing for this for a long time but we didn't know when opening night would be. Suddenly it was announced, 'Five minutes 'til curtain.' and we weren't even in costume and didn't have our make-up on. But when 'Places' was called and the curtain went up, we were where we were supposed to be."