A Starting Place

This is a blogbeginning.  I know that I put those words together.  I do that kind of thing from time to time.  I like to build words.  Anyway, today I am putting fingers to keyboard when I have normally have put pen to paper.  I am thinking today about my cousin Leisa.  I grew up with Leisa.  She was a bit younger than me, always delightful, and a friend through the years. Today, she is having surgery for colon cancer.  That is tough on her and her family.  She is in my prayers.  So this is not a bright smiley beginning.  However, it is reality...you know...the stuff life is made of.  We may not always like it, but it keeps on coming.  One of these days perhaps I will sit down and count the ways that it has hit me head on.  On the other hand maybe not.  I am thinking there may not be much value in that.  Well I think I will go out and face some of that stuff called reality, all the while keeping in mind that mine may not be as tough today as the reality some others may be living.