The mixing of tribes......
Mon May 18, 2015 at 1:43 AM PT: I posted this today on my community blog https://petefarrupdate.wordpress.com/ linking my neighbors with DKOS. That might make for an interesting experience. Some of my Panorama senior friends are stout conservative Republicans. They are dear sweet loving people that enrich my life each day. We just agree not to let politics get in the way of enjoying each other. Sometimes our differences are the launching pad for joyous teasing in an ongoing playful game of wits.
So here they are being encouraged to start reading my stuff on this radical progressive blog.. I wonder what will happen next? You may be getting some visits from conservative seniors who have never been to the land of orange. What fun. Just a heads up and a wish that we treat them with respect and compassion.
Here is what I posted on my Panorama blog.
I am intentionally putting cancer blogging where it will get attention, gain influence, and boost readership. The more eyeballs, the more we can bring change.
I belong to a progressive political blog called Daily Kos.
I posted a new cancer blog there.
I list my post here at some risk that my local friends who are politically conservative might feel this to be uncomfortable. Please don’t take offense. My brain tumor is apolitical and so will I be an apolitical advocate for cancer healing.
Let me reassure you. We are all brothers and sisters who share so much more in love than when are creating distinctions about what particular brand of thoughts a person collects.
Cancer does not have a political cure. Our political system does not work . The United States is behaving as if it had a cancer in the responsibility center of our governmental brain. I want the special interests out of government but then I want us to heal our political polarization.
Cancer will be cured by the skillful application of love as brothers and sisters, secure in their uniqueness, are holding hands and smiling.
. Let the mixing of Americans begin. Let's break up that strata of polarization that keeps us from making friends with those of different values and beliefs.
love
Pete
This is the magic of cancer. It generates a radiant healing love from those who wish to help. This love melts the frozen energy of identity politics and allows people of all political stripes to be free to love each other as beautiful human beings.
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This is how today feels for me.
Something that is supposed to hurt and be a bummer, has turned into a happy buzz of wonder.
Thanks again guys for a beautiful day.
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4:24 PM PT: Thanks to all you Kossacks for helping me make the rec list.
I'm getting tons of cannabis info and fantastic emotional support.
My community cancer blog stats are climbing through the roof.
You are helping big time get the word out.
Big Orange was a lifesaver today.
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My dear Kossacks, please gather round for a second.
Crystal Eyes( AKA Pete Farr) here on the intercom.
I got some really bad news and could use a hug from my loving cyberfamily at DKOS.
The results of my brain biopsy from the Catherine Ivy Cancer Center at Swedish Hospital in Seattle give me a grade 3 anaplastic astrocytoma tumor on my left motor cortex. My statistical prognosis of survival is from three to five years.
My blog- https://petefarrupdate.wordpress.com/
is about so much more than cancer.
It is about cancer as a launching pad for transformation through awareness, healing and love.
This week I begin chemo, radiation and cannabis treatments. I'm getting energy massage and energy counselling. I'm exploring meditation, and reaching out to alternative healers that deal with cancer as a symptom of a dysfunctional energy process not a specific troublesome molecule.
On Monday April 27 I was hospitalized for a seizure.
I was on a volunteer crew picking up donated furniture.
My right calf started spasming and the vibrations snaked up my body.
As I fell I remember not being able to breathe.
My friend gave me cpr for what he thought was 20 minutes as 911 response was a cluster f@#k and twice went up and down the stairs of a five story building to to find me.
I have returned to consciousness a changed man.
There is now little room in my life for all the petty and little things that used to bug me.
There is no room in my life for stage fright, shyness and personal shame.
Time has become a priceless gem of rich and full experience.
Love is taking over my life.
I have been richly compensated for all that has been taken from me on that Monday morning,
I have been given the gift of profound meaningful personal transformation.
and a powerful taste of universal cosmic love.
School teachers are always big on making lemon-aide out of lemons. This cancer has inspired me to kick it up a notch. I'm hoping to make a magical mystical lemon elixir that lovingly heals cancer.
I want my brain cancer journey to become an educational support for all who have that lightning strike of cancer moment come out of the blue.
I want to explore the medical response to cancer and the non traditional cancer healing that is becoming available. (On Wed, I hope to begin Cannabis oil to supplement the traditional radiation and chemo)
I want to improve my local health care system and help develop community healing support services.
I want to leave my community a guide blog - cancer patient 101- travel tips learned on the wild and wonderful road of healing.
(and here's my Kossack coming out)
I see cancer as our primary American social disease. We have a Koch tumor that needs to be dissolved. There is a powerful metaphor in understanding that our political behavior is cancerous. Traditional medicine doesn't understand what cancer is but tries to blindly cut it out with limited results. Energy healing understands that everything (including cancer) is interconnected energy. Cancer is healed when the energy flow is restored back to health.
I think our fight against the Kochs will become more skillful when we spend less time blindly striking out against something outside us and more time growing our power to flow healing energy within us. Developing the cancer paradigm for political action gives me goosebumps. It is the rarest of blogging events. It is actually a useful reframe that brings with it an actual focus for effective action. Let's cure our collective political mind by understanding energy and how it heals.
Here's the bottom line from my death scare experience. We are all beautiful interconnected loving eternal energy beings hanging out in these fragile temporary earth bodies lost in the illusion of separate selfhood. We are here to love.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let it into your heart
Then you can start
To make it better.
I have gone from being a happy healthy 69 year old retired school teacher living the life of joyous geezerness with my beautiful Kossack wife Snapples. Snapples has been my rock. 47 years of marriage under our belt and my best friend is strong at my side with all the super powers of a retired RN. My children and their families have held me in tender love.
We live in a cozy duplex in a comfortable and joyous urban senior village community in Lacey Washington called Panorama.http://panorama.org/. The people who live in this little senior urban village are my dear friends. I am blessed with an unimaginable community support that you could only appreciate if you knew the magic of my retirement community.
Our life was a pleasant slide of getting gradually older and older in an active community of vital seniors.
Cancer has changed all that.
We are now riding the dragon. Up to the heavens and deep into hell with a snap of a finger or ring of a phone. Our life is now a continual ride on the baddest ass roller coaster ever imaginable.
I came back to my life with a clear purpose.
I want to share this transformation and healing in a way that helps others.
My energy therapist shut her eyes and read my field and said this strange thing:
"THIS IS THE HEALING FOR WHICH YOU WERE BORN."
I've given my cancer a theme song from the Beatles.
This was one of those aha! moments when a song lyric goes from sweet nonsense to mystical clarity.
Black Bird singing in the dead of night.
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arrive.
Please feel free to drop in on my blog . https://petefarrupdate.wordpress.com/ Share it with others and spread the word. Cancer surviorship is a team sport.
I don't have much time to interact or respond to blogging as I used to, but I love to feel that magic Kossack Orange energy headed my way. You guys are my family.
Specific request: Anybody out there with experience with cannabis treatment for grade 3 anaplastic astrocytoma? I'm jumping in Wed and could use a heads up..on providers and treatment formulas.
I Love you all so much
Crystal Eyes (aka Pete Farr)