Enjoy this week's "Jolt of Joan" designed to inspire you to connect with the bigness part of yourself, nurture it and make your contribution to others. Download it and play it as often as you like. Listen every week - at the beginning of the week - for a NEW Jolt of Joan. This is [...]
A long nap has delayed the writing of the blog. Thanks Judith for a lovely walk in the canyon this morning and a revealing conversation. Life unfolds in measured ways revealing its secrets and wonders along the way. Were we to know the magnificence and challenges all at once, we might not rise to meet [...]
Thanks Mary for a wonderful walk this morning and Annette for driving me to my follow up appointment with my oncologist in Fort Collins. Yes, I still have fatigue today but much better than Monday and Tuesday and NO PAIN! HOORAY! Thinking today about the web of life that connects us all and the metaphor of [...]
Marvelous, no pain, only the fatigue. A sound arises from deep within erupting as loud expression demanding attention, "WHY, why this time out?" Yes, I know, the deepening of the experience of life, of connection with others, of compassion. BUT, "WHY, why this time out?" Will it enhance my creativity? ripen meaningful communication? allow me [...]
Thanks, Judith, for a lovely walk this morning. It felt so good to swing my arms, move my legs, look up to the sky and breathe the fresh air. Ah, the joy of living and walking in the canyon. Today is the third day after Chemo on Friday. In my first round of chemo this [...]
I have decided to GIFT everyone with my weekly audio recordings ~ 2 min ~ "A Jolt of Joan." Knowing how difficult it is to live from the fullness of our being because of the many pulls on our time and energy, I want to make this contribution to help YOU stay focused on living [...]
We landed in Denver Wednesday night later than we expected because of a late flight from Ljubljana to Chicago - missing the Chicago to Denver flight. We delighted in the sight of the Colorado mountains. The first thing I did on Thursday morning was cut off the rest of my hair that I had been [...]
Last night we had supper along the river. Here are Stu and I, with my wig on. This is the river later in the evening. This is our last day here. Tomorrow morning we board the plane for the return trip to the US. My second Chemo treatment is on Friday August 27th. While on [...]
Peschiera, a lovely town on Lake Garda in Italy, was a stop we made en route returning from Verona back to Ljubljana, Slovenia, yesterday. Later we stopped to have lunch in a small village in Slovenia. This is the view (below) from the outside deck where we were sitting. One of my favorites are Porcini mushrooms. [...]
Back in Ljubljana at the Slon (Elephant) Hotel! In 1552, Maximillian II, Archduke of Austria, 25 yrs old recently married Mary of Spain. On his way back from Spain, he brought along one of his wedding presents, an elephant named Soliman. Maximillian stopped at the best inn in Ljubljana with his escort and the elephant. The [...]