We move rock here on Phil’s Camino when folks put ones that they find on the trail on the pile with their intentions on them. It was a good thing that got started a long time ago by My Rebecca back when we started all this walking and praying stuff. It is in the alperfect category.

So, yesterday I caught up to one of my old hunting buddies that I haven’t talked to in ages. We were standing in the sun outside the market telling our lies. I had heard that he had a cancer hobby going also and I asked him about it. When you start asking questions you never know what you are going to come up with and in this case I was richly rewarded. It seems that the major part of his treatment was 7 weeks of radiation at five days per week. Now my friend is a very robust fellow and his response to this ordeal was equally robust. Since he had to catch the ferry each time he came up with the idea of driving his dump truck over and hauling a load of gravel back each day since that commodity is so much cheaper on the mainland. Yea, when most of us would figure out how to catch the bus just to be easy on ourselves. Love it!

Then today I was at the hospital waiting to see my Doc when I struck up a conversation with a well dressed man sitting near me. He asked how I was doing and I responded with the ever appropriate, “So far so good!” He got a kick out of that and we started conversing about guy stuff. Turns out he had owned a gold mine in Alaska for thirty five years. We went on for half a hour on that. And hardly a word about our problems, mostly about moving rock. This is what I like to see.

So what are you getting at Felipé? Well, it is that it is really easy sometimes for people to have their conversation all about their problems. Some more than others of course. We talked about this recently when we were noting that it is possible for someone to actually channel their cancer. It is delightful when that is not the case. And beyond that I am seeing that it is possible to guide a conversation somewhat and keep it on the upbeat side. That is interesting to discover.

Yes, back to the ranch from the hospital for me now. I got another two week chemo vacation in preparation for a possible change in treatment. My scan from a few days ago was the last straw for the chemical that I have been on for almost a year. It hasn’t done a great job and we are looking for the next good option to pursue. And my weight is up again to 174.4 lbs and that it extremely heartening. That is ten pounds heavier than a year ago.

Enough for now. Rockin loves, Felipé.