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Dec 24, 2020
3 min

This year for Christmas, we got Covid...

"Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of ...

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Leslie J Allen

Dec 15, 2020
2 min

The cage door is always open...

If you don't like something, change it! If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou Fifty years ago, I accompanied my Mo...

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Leslie J Allen

Oct 15, 2020
2 min

It's just a flat tire...

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. Yo...

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Leslie J Allen

Sep 9, 2020
4 min

Tuesday...

In 2018, my husband, Don, passed away after a 6-year journey with cancer. Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) was a part of our journey ev...

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Leslie J Allen

May 15, 2020
2 min

The Mustard Seed...

The other day, a good friend shared how overwhelmed she was about her level of loss. Not only has COVID-19 contributed to this through i...

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Leslie J Allen

Apr 15, 2020
4 min

The price of procrastination...

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” . - Pablo Picasso A year and a half after my husbands death...

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Leslie J Allen

Apr 7, 2020
3 min

2-6 Months

2-6 months Richard said….I sat very still. So did Don. We were at his oncologist’s office and after discussing discontinuing treatment ...

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