This month we are bombarded with ads, products, and admonishments about Breast Cancer. So, on this last blog post this month let me take some time to acknowledge October as Breast Cancer Awareness month. smh

For those of us who have had it, we don’t need to be reminded because we are all too aware of it from time to time, every month. In fact, our remembrance can be triggered by the mere mention of the word cancer, breast, chemo, biopsy, doctor, hospital, mammogram, radiation, life, love, contentment, sickness, health, etc. You get the picture.

That is not to say we feel deeply each time we are triggered to remember. No. It’s like those little micro-aggressions or mosquito bites. Just enough to get our attention and sometimes more than enough to cause us to rage in the discomfort.

Well, here’s to not saying “Let’s move on”. But, let us be empowered by those remembrances and not just because we are still here. Those remembrances can serve to put a smile on our faces because we are not where we were. Those remembrances can cause us to enjoy the sunlight, to dance because we can, to savor each meal with gusto, to laugh despite the pain or scars, both real and imagined, to look into someone’s eyes and be grateful for this “moment in time”.

Why?

Just because!

“It’s pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven’t made up your mind which way to go.” Madam C. J. Walker

Dr. Harriette