by Elaine Olsen | Feb 8, 2011 | cancer, cancer volume 4, peace for the journey
My hair. Beginning seeds have begun their sprouting, and I can’t decide if I’m going to be completely gray at forty-four or will continue with a patchy mix of various shades. While barely visible to others, I feel my hair there… soft and tender and just enough of a...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 3, 2011 | blogaversary, cancer, cancer volume 3, writing
I wanted to wait and write when I had something profound to say; I decided against it because… 1. You might be waiting a long time to hear from me, and 2. Today marks my three year blogging anniversary. My heart longs to mark this occasion with eloquent prose and...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 26, 2011 | cancer, out of the mouths of babes, parenting, pilgrimage
“‘You know the way to the place where I am going.’ Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” {John 14:4-6} ...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 19, 2011 | cancer, grief, pain, suffering
This is an important post for me. I want to go somewhere with my thoughts—a “place” I’ve been dwelling at in recent days. I don’t think I’m alone in my dwelling, for I believe that there are many of us who’ve pitched our tents a time or two or ten at this address,...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 17, 2011 | cancer, friendship
I’m a woman in need of connection… a person who needs people. It matters not the number of people. What matters is presence… what my friend, Alicia Chole, would say “the present of presence.” We give big when we give ourselves to someone else, for the giving of self...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 13, 2011 | cancer, cancer video, montana, video
Few words today… plenty on the video. This is my crossing over day, and while I’ll spend the next few weeks with the same side effects and many more months being restored to full health, I feel closer now than I have in the previous five months. To God be...
