Here it goes Logen

So my daughter Logen encouraged me to start a blog. I am tired of facebook and it's ever increasing invasion on my privacy. I am a private person and this change makes sense to me. Thoughts for this week seem to trend around the topic of superficiality. I think because I work at a hospital around "sick" people that it becomes more and more evident of the ridiculousness of some to gear their "happiness" around their appearance. I watch as newly diagnosed cancer patients, end of life patients and those who lose limbs revert back to what is most important to them in such circumstances. Rarely will you see a patient wishing they had more time to exercise, get a facial or pedicure before they pass. Their thoughts are consumed with spending every minute with their closest family members or friends. All else becomes moot. It has caused me to ponder the priorities in my life and where I spend my time (apparently on the computer.) I think sometimes because my actions are not congruent with my priorities, I tend to get melancholy. Life is definitely a journey and although I am 43 years young, I have much to learn. The older I get the more I am convinced that most of what I worry about is frivolous. The challenge is to master such worries and focus my intentions on what is most worthy; my family.