Light

Well - where to begin? A day of highs, lows, and high drama all round.
Maybe I should start with a thank you - to you all! For a brief moment this morning I was on Spotlight! I had been perusing favourites and suddenly recognised my own blip - well that was cause for celebration - particularly as I had just got back from the allotment after a pretty messy and smelly clean up. But the sun was shining and the sky was blue and the last of the mist was rising along the Tamar, so I had been happy. Then I saw Amelia on spotlight! If it had not been for the blipcentral notification I would have thought I'd been hallucinating because then she was gone!Never, ever expected to be on favourites let alone there. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
So after much whooping off to my hairdresser. We talk of life and love, we laugh and both say outrageous things! He had been selling items from his home the last time I was in, and I had bought an antique, stained teal cupboard with drawers to store a little of my school stuff. It's still empty on the landing getting in the way! Well I had admired some large iron work sconces and hanging 4 piece candelabra on my last visit. All of the stuff had gone and he said everything had sold apart from the ironwork - which he promptly gave me when I said I had liked it! This day was turning out better than I had expected.
So on to get chicken stuff, with 3 large sacks in the boot I set off round Kit Hill -when a truck with a trailer nearly smashed into me. Whether he lost control due to the car in front of me, or just misjudged it I have no idea - but he hit the bank, his bonnet flew up and he then swerved straight at me. Luckily my fight vs flight instinct meant I went hard on the accelerator, and given that my car has quite a bit of "oomph" as I like that in a car - he missed me by a whisper. Looking in my rear view mirror I saw him get out and as there was nowhere to turn kept on - the car in front turned round at the earliest opportunity and went back.
At this point you may well be asking why I didn't. This is where it gets brutally real. I was on my way to pick up my friend and her daughters after her first chemo treatment. My dear friend has been literally torn out of the path she thought she was on and thrown onto another one. From going to Dr with symptoms to diagnosis and treatment 3 weeks. Today for her it got real. It is fitting I am real and honest with you, until now I could not be, and looking back you may see some of my blips in a different light. I give a special thank you to weewilkie who was the right person at the right time.
So - my blip is an image of light. For the light that has shone on me today and on previous days when I have felt happy and my friend has been able to smile inspite of it all. For the light that you made happen by your comments. For the healing light I so wish for my friend.