Hello Fellow Travelers!
This week I derived new inspiration for my continuing adventure from a new and unexpected source: Cancer. It kills a lot of people and last week it took David Bowie, who not only was an innovator and an artist, he was art. I saw him this morning in a silly Ben Stiller movie about the silly world of male modeling ("Zoolander" - What can I say? It had a gasoline fight with predictably tragic results! I'm all in!)
Anytime I saw Bowie in a movie, he made the movie a lot more interesting just by him being in it!
Mostly, Bowie was a musician. A musical genius that was a little "not of this world" because no one is really sure if, in fact, he was from this world! And cancer got him!
I always looked forward to experiencing anything new he did because whatever he did, whatever medium he chose, was always relevant and interesting.
The realization that his last album would be his last was a very sad one. Then, I reconsidered. Bowie was a master of reinvention! Had he crushed out the big "C", he would have continued to surprise and amaze and would have looked fantastic doing both! I was fortunate enough to not only survive a brain tumor but remain cancer-free for these past five years!
Of course, I never met Mr. Bowie but it makes me just a bit sad to know I never will. Or will I? After all, he was a "Space Oddity" and I'm more than a little odd and I've "lost my place in space".
It seems to me like more people than ever are being given terrible news. I can't tell if the increase in malignancies is real or I'm just noticing it more often because I had a tumor.
I'll never do a lot of the things I used to do, and that's OK, nobody cared much, and I wasn't very good at cooking/cleaning anyway. I'm really not great with all things financial, I simply let the PS handle everything!
What I can do is pedal another mile, refuse a cookie, drink another glass of water.
What I am good at is putting myself in absurdly difficult situations and cheerfully complaining endlessly about them!
I was listening to my PS play some Bowie today and he played, "Heroes", a beautiful, sad, song. Who will be the hero that cures cancer? When?
This week I derived new inspiration for my continuing adventure from a new and unexpected source: Cancer. It kills a lot of people and last week it took David Bowie, who not only was an innovator and an artist, he was art. I saw him this morning in a silly Ben Stiller movie about the silly world of male modeling ("Zoolander" - What can I say? It had a gasoline fight with predictably tragic results! I'm all in!)
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| Sill from 1983's "The Hunger" with David Bowie and the incomparable Catherine Deneuve as chic vampires in Manhattan |
Anytime I saw Bowie in a movie, he made the movie a lot more interesting just by him being in it!
Mostly, Bowie was a musician. A musical genius that was a little "not of this world" because no one is really sure if, in fact, he was from this world! And cancer got him!
I always looked forward to experiencing anything new he did because whatever he did, whatever medium he chose, was always relevant and interesting.
The realization that his last album would be his last was a very sad one. Then, I reconsidered. Bowie was a master of reinvention! Had he crushed out the big "C", he would have continued to surprise and amaze and would have looked fantastic doing both! I was fortunate enough to not only survive a brain tumor but remain cancer-free for these past five years!
Of course, I never met Mr. Bowie but it makes me just a bit sad to know I never will. Or will I? After all, he was a "Space Oddity" and I'm more than a little odd and I've "lost my place in space".
It seems to me like more people than ever are being given terrible news. I can't tell if the increase in malignancies is real or I'm just noticing it more often because I had a tumor.
I'll never do a lot of the things I used to do, and that's OK, nobody cared much, and I wasn't very good at cooking/cleaning anyway. I'm really not great with all things financial, I simply let the PS handle everything!
What I can do is pedal another mile, refuse a cookie, drink another glass of water.
What I am good at is putting myself in absurdly difficult situations and cheerfully complaining endlessly about them!
I was listening to my PS play some Bowie today and he played, "Heroes", a beautiful, sad, song. Who will be the hero that cures cancer? When?
Well, some people with lung cancer are living longer,
ReplyDeleteespecially if they respond to all the modalities: a half dozen different chemotherapies, several targeted pill treatments, and now, two different immunotherapies. Melanoma has got a lot of press with Jimmy Carter's melanoma to the brain, now in complete remission from immunotherapy...times they are a-changing...hardly everybody, but some...