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Posts from the California Category

Few left overs from Cali.

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Little sisters and my grandpa takin’ a gander at a sea otter. Cute little baggerts!

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La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles. These are life-size statues of mammoths just outside the George C. Paige Museum. It both cracks me up insatiably and saddens me. Bye daddy!

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Eric’s kinda short.

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Oh noes! A meteor! Also equally hilarious and saddening. Good thing they were captured in stone/plaster for eternity/a few decades.

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Mom discharged from the hospital after only two and a half days!

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Whoop!

Okay… Well I’ve been back from California for a long while now. Despite the early set backs and last-minute surgery plan changes, everything went off without a hitch! The surgery only lasted a few hours and they were able to determine definitively that the tumor was not cancerous and was a benign tumor (still growing, but benign!). Crazy birthday.

The post-op was only a few days in the hospital and she was feeling pretty good afterwards, well considering. That anesthesia takes a while to fully leave your system I guess.

Lil’ brother Eric came in on Thursday the 3rd. Drove around LA. Hated the driving, wished to be back home.Travels home were okay, except I got stuck in the cliche seating arrangement on the airplane… Ugh.

Another, newer, image to come shortly with more ruminations. Stay tuned, as they say in the biz.

Peace
- KS

Some mo’ pictures from awesome California.

The weather here (near the coast anyway) is amazing. I can totally see why some people come here and never leave.

A panoramic! Click for a higher resolution version.

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Not much else at this point! Still in limbo in surgery world. Been running around a bunch. So glad I still have a whole week left here.

Peace
- KS

Today’s title is from the some “For You My Dear” by Steel Train from their album For You My Dear. My current obsession (on so many levels!).

It takes a lot to really fake you and leave you bare
And I’ll never forsake you

You can stand on the edge till you find the pledge you made
Once upon your stolen seeds
But to hold the dreams and never believe you’ll leave all the schemes
That held you up inside

For you my dear
I can fall from heights

And it’s all I can do
As I slide to you
And brake when we fall

I give it all the best for the girl who rests
Shameless on the brink of broken dreams
And so I look to the floor for the one I adore
And in place is the face that shines so bright I believe

Don’t you turn away

Don’t deny what makes you
And in me you’ll see the one who’ll forsake you

Nope, it’s not the name of an Owl City cover band.

Or part of the chorus of a song.

They are signs of God’s hand on my mom and dad (and family) along their journey to rid the world of brain tumors, one person at a time. Or something like that.

We later decided to coin the term “Owl in the Road” for any event of significance, an epiphany moment, or a “sign” (not necessarily a crop circle like in Midnight Shama-lamma’s movie).

As we go through this ordeal we try to look for God’s healing hand upon our hearts. Sometimes He speaks to us and comforts us through our relationships with other people, sometimes it is through events that make us gasp and say “No one but God our Creator could have done that.” Some call them “signs”, some say they are “just coincidences.” To us its an “Owl in the Road.”

This is an excerpt from the blog my dad is maintaining along this journey. Check it out here:

Owl in the Road: History and Current Events Relating to Dana’s Brain-a

Should be a good read, my dad’s quite the writer.

I had my own little adventures getting. I apparently book a flight for 5:18pm FRIDAY night, not Thursday. My mom’s surgery was scheduled for Friday. Smoooooth. Luckily I was able to get on a flight last night to still get to Cali before the operation. Whew! Second obstacle: waiting in O’Hare for 5 hours before the flight would take off. Fortunately DeeDee K. was on hand for entertainment! Thanks for making it an enjoyable wait!

So pictures. Here’s some.

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Okay, I’d say more. But off for surgery!!

Peace
- KS