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What’s in a day? April 14th, the day before tax day? Yes, but it was so much more than that this year. It was the day myDarlin’ went for his follow up visit to the cardiologist. He was following doctor’s orders keeping up with his diet and medicine regimen. He had put a couple of pounds back on and was a bit nervous about that.
myDarlinRobert Kenui Pope worked in the morning on the day of his appointment, and then headed out to see the doctor. I received a text at 2:26pm that read as follows: Awesome checkup! Says I’m doing all the right things. He wants me to get another scan in three years and after that says I’ll be on my own. Whew! What a relief that was.
I worked late that evening, and was prepping for a presentation on social media for our department meeting the following day. I included a screen shot of my Instagram home page in the presentation. Looking back, I see that it is a picture of a slice of life at that very moment in time, a slice to be savored and cherished……
- Open Jam at Paddy’s on Sunday 4/13 - we watched Jason Clark & his band as they rocked the patio
- Cherokee Farmers Market on Sunday 4/13– we each got a soda, then looked at the flowers and decided to buy three very large daisies - the type that are welded together. When a co-worker asked me that Monday if I had been able to do any gardening, I replied ye – except for mine don’t need water.
- Taqueria Tsunami on Sunday 4/13 - located in the Outlet mall on 575 – we had our favorite avocado roll appetizers, and laughed when the server gave us a ‘Moe’s’ pen to sign our check. Robert loved going to this mall because of the Bose store. They knew him so well; they would run to open the door for him.
- Selfie with myDarlin’ on Saturday 4/12 – one of my favorite photos to take. I used to crack up when people would offer to use my regular camera to take a photo of us as they were convinced we didn’t have any because I’m the photographer. Au contraire…. LOL!
- Sweep the Hooch – Team Depot project on Saturday 4/12– yes, I took the photos and wasn’t ‘getting dirty’, but I did sweat right along with everyone else. Robert worked that morning
- The Shuffle Junkies at Hottie Hawgs on Friday 4/11 and the sunset as we drove over there to see them play.
- A shot from a book of quotes given to me by Noe on Friday 4/11. Do what you love. It’s what you were meant to do. I love the sentiment behind that.
And while I don’t have recorded conversations (that would just be weird, huh?), I can tell you that we spoke of music, love, family, work, retirement, summer vacation, the Saints and photography.
Today I am grateful, that even though our days are numbered in the book of life, we had a ray of hope and the promise of tomorrow so that our days all the way to the very end were filled with joy instead of fear, pain and suffering. And even today, as myDarlin’ has gone on to play in God’s House Band, I am filled with hope and the promise of tomorrow as Christ lives within me and I know that I will see myDarlin’ again.
#KeepLookingUp
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