WOW ... TALK ABOUT A FULL CIRCLE ....

Life is a full circle indeed and today THIS IS MY FULL CIRCLE .... from a highest ever recorded weight of 327 pounds to 117 pounds today ... I am loving it ... enjoying health and mobility and enjoying life one day at a time ... and above all I choose joy and I will embrace this day and make it happen to me ...

Sharing my entry in my journal A Picture a Day Keeps the Pounds and the Inches Away.... from 98 pounds in 1979 to 327 pounds to 117 pounds today I am soooooooo loving my life post WLS....



For a moment I thought about dashes instead of arrows and I could not help but recall that poem The Dash .... these are the words...

THE DASH.... (by Linda Ellis)
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.

He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning to the end.

He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke of the following date with tears.

But he said what mattered most of all was the Dash between those years.

For that Dash represents all the time that she spent alive on Earth,

And now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own, the cars, the house, the cash,

What matter is how we live and love and how we spend our Dash.

So think about this long and hard; Are there things you’d like to change?

For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough to consider what’s true and real

And always try to understand the way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger and show appreciation more

And love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile

Remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.

So when your eulogy is being read with your life’s actions to rehash

Would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your Dash?

 You are just beautiful inside and out. I have found much inspiration in all your posts and pictures.

 Thank you Guara, it is soooooooooooo good hearing from you!!!!!

Very cool graphics Marti, and an excellent representation of your journey. I know your dash is being well spent!

 Girlllllllll I work on that dash every day ... sometimes I fall wayyyyyyyyy too short and just got to revise myself ... make amends and get back to working on it LOL .... and like you I am embracing joy and making it happen to me!!!

What a fantastic collage. Its thought provoking to see where you came from and how each point in your transformation helped shape you as you are today.

It is too easy to get caught up in the dash to the extent that you forget to enjoy this life. Continue to live your best dash!

 Living my dash to the fullest sis.... there are periods in my life where it gets a bit crooked but I try to work at it each day human that I am I do fall short quite often LOL ... Lawd, talk about falling short ... good thing is we can get up and start over again.... Thanks for being my support always ... here we go .. you and I .. two Pana's meeting up for bkast in the wee hours of the morning once a month .... How much fun is that? to think if it were not for that OH conference in Rye, NY we would have never met.... 

how much fun is that??? we even have a collage together ...

This is the second time in two days that the little story about the Dash has been told to me.  I thnk maybe somebody up there is trying to tell me something.

 That story comes to mind every time I mess my dash up LOL ... and it tells me something each time .... and I try to do something about it ... 

Have I told you lately how much you make me smile?  Well each and every time I see your posts!  You Rock lady.