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: Name: Pat; Location: Denver, Colorado, United States

I am curious. About everything and everyone! To me, life is only worth living if we interact with one another. Learn from one another. Serve each other; teach each other. Care deeply for one another, and take care of each other. And maybe the most important - life is quite possibly only worth living if we find the "funny" in absolutely everything! Laughter & Love. Can you imagine life without these? Would you want to? Not me!

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I wrote a book of my cancer experience. It was published to support cancer patients and their caregivers; click here if you'd care to give it a read:
Pat Battles A Wolf

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Sugarland's "Stand Back Up" Describes Me Perfectly:

Go ahead and take your best shot,
Let 'er rip, give it all you've got,
I'm laid out on the floor, but I've been here before,
I may stumble, yeah I might fall,
Only human aren't we all?
I might lose my way, but hear me when I say,
I will stand back up,
You'll know just the moment when I've had enough,
Sometimes I'm afraid, and I don't feel that tough,
But I'll stand back up,
I've been beaten up and bruised,
I've been kicked right off my shoes,
Been down on my knees more times than you'd believe,
When the darkness tries to get me, Theres a light that just won't let me,
It might take my pride, and my tears may fill my eyes,
But I'll stand back up,
I've weathered all these storms, But I just turn them into wind so I can fly,
What don't kill you makes you stronger,
When I take my last breath, That's when I'll just give up,
So, go ahead take your best shot,
Let 'er rip, give it all you've got,
You might win this round but you can't keep me down,
'Cause I'll stand back up,
And you'll know just the moment when I've had enough,
Sometimes I'm afraid and I don't feel that tough,
But I'll stand back up,
You'll know just the moment when I've had enough,
Sometimes I'm afraid and I don't feel that tough,
But I'll stand back up.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Our Journey

I am an elderly single working mom to a teenage boy. It was my choice that I am single & I do not regret my choice. I needed to protect myself & my son. Still in all single-mom hood to a teenage boy is challenging and tough. And rewarding. My son and I are yet again at a transition point. My son is teaching me how to let go, loosen the reigns and let him go fully into his own life, his own identity. It is at once awesome and scary, for both of us. We are both thankful we have wonderful friends willing to journey with us!

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Excuse? 'Elderly'?? Since when??? (Feeling like 'death warmed over' after a hard week is NOT 'elderly', kiddo! Hang in there!!!)

As always - safe journeys for both of you.; 1/25/2011 7:17 PM
Middle Child said...: Letting go of your kids is so hard. ours left home at 17 - and it was so hard - I cried a lot....but they came back and went again and came back and now have homes of their own hours away - but we are best frineds - really they are my very best friends and love me for who i am - so in the end it all pans out - slightly different with a son - but you will know what to do as it comes along just remember the post you did on common sense!; 1/29/2011 10:48 PM