Humbling.

Perspective is rare… it is a gift when some reads the label to us, while we are stuck inside the bottle.

Hoping for small joys for all of you today.

I'm grateful for this thread, and in deep accord. I too have an incurable cancer (my prognosis numbers are different—best guess seems like a D12 roll +3, maybe—but there is no current way out of the woods). I'm finding that whether it's art-making or family and friend time, the moment, the present, is infinitely rich; each moment contains something that isn't born and will never die. And at the same time, I realize that the only way I get anything I cherish—my work, my kids, my world—is because things are always coming apart and turning into other things.

Thank you, Jason, for posting this. I'm not in this particular battle, but it's a wonderful attitude and perspective for anyone dealing with their own mortality.

How do we know when it's time to focus on the horror (in this case of fascism gaining a foothold in American government) and when to let go of it temporarily?

I think now is the time to focus on it. Now is the best chance we have of fighting everything. If we ignore it too much, it will grow

Talking to the author of that thread, she said we focus on it when there's something to do. Right now there's a ton we can do. We can go to demonstrations and protests. We can organize in our communities and unions. We can gather power and protect each other

And then we rest and relax and laugh and spend time with our loved ones

Thinking about cancer as a metaphor, I think we waited too long to go to the doctor and now it's stage 2 or 3 instead of stage 1. If we wait any longer, it could become stage 4. We can't do that

Thanks for sharing this thread- because of it, for the first time I've met someone who has exactly the same cancer as me.