Is This A Lasting Treasure

The Jolynn Update:

She's bald now.  When I went to the hospital on Friday afternoon to bring her home ... Surprise!  She had her head shaved by a nurse in the morning.  

Miraculously Well - that's my update.  It's stunning how well she is doing.  Her appetite is good.  No fevers or rashes.  No high temperatures.  Beyond the odds, she is out of the gate like a thoroughbred.  We still have appointments every couple of days but for the most part, we are sailing through the Day Plus 100 chapter pretty damned well.  Today is Day Plus 16. Wow.

While Jolynn's daughter, Mary, accompanied her to today's appointment, I drove the hour and a half out to the country, the peaceful, quiet country.  I took back roads.  Avoiding the occasional pot hole, I took deep breaths with my sunroof open, breathing in the wet pasture air while passing cows and chickens in the fields.  I've been cooped up with my own tensions and sadness for so many months, for so many reasons.  I haven't let myself even listen to music, too deep in my thoughts to let tunes in.  Freshened by the smell of hay, I dared to push the Pandora app on my IPhone, the IPhone that never leaves my side and is never turned off, like my brain.  Carole King boomed into my car speaker and I felt my chest take a long, deep breath....  I would have closed my eyes if I weren't driving.  Twenty seconds in, "Will you still love me tomorrow" was snapping me out of it and the dogs in the back looked at me as I started singing along.  Carole had taken my hand and led me down the melodic back road toward peace, back to me, myself, my old self, Jeannine The Green Bean.

No, our family does not  have some sort of bean obsession.  One might think that, given the name of my newest blog.  My dad used to call me "Jeannine the Green Bean" when I was little.  I wasn't young, I was never young....but I was little.  I haven't really confessed that I had that nickname so don't tell anyone, K?   

Four hours in the car with the pups and Marvin Gaye, Bread, America, the Beatles, Aretha Franklin and the Four Tops, whatever Pandora decided to gift me.  Open sunroof until the drizzle started and John Denver took me home, back to myself for a minute.  

It'll be okay.  Right?

Just a moment's pleasure...

1971 - OMG   (go ahead, click on the link)   

                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iaAMTPRCvY