Posted by Sharon Lindsey, Co-Founder Whole-Body Wellbeing

It's Friday and it has been a glorious week.  Whole-Body Wellbeing is making plans for the release of Dottie Lessard's new book, SEVEN LETTERS THAT SAVED MY LIFE".   We are arranging a book signing in her home town of Boston close to Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital where Dottie had her new start in life where she was the donor recipient of two beautiful lungs donated by a young man who was a mountain climber.  My favorite part in her book is when she makes that date very special every year since her lung transplant and climbs a mountain to celebrate his life!  When I read that I cried.  In many ways, Dottie has had an extraordinary life living with Cystic Fibrosis.  I say that because she has grown up with a gratitude for everything and everyone that comes into her life...as life as she knows can be very temporary.  I on the other hand never really looked at life that way until the last several years.  My immune disorder kicked me into that reality.  I remember getting out of the hospital and literally, "smelling the roses"consciously...something I took for granted and never really appreciated until now...

Reminds be of the little doves nesting on my patio in a little basket.  This is the "second couple" having taken residence of that basket this spring.  The "First Family" moved in, had their baby Dove and left around two weeks ago.  I got so much joy observing that whole experience and was sad and happy at the same time when they left.  "The empty nest syndrome".  The next family moved in last week and began their renovations, new twigs, pine needles .  I am concerned because they have not been around in the last two days and I am worried sick.  I climbed up and looked in the basket and there are 3 little eggs.  The mamma dove should be around there to take care of them...the whole incident definitely brings up my own feelings of fear of abandonment... I wish I could sit on the nest and keep those little eggs warm, but it is not my place...I have to let nature take it's course.  I want to fix it like a good co-dependent but what a good lesson for me that I cannot fix their problems or anyone else for that matter.  Nature is really showing that to me right now and I know there is nothing that I can do...I hate that and yet at the same time, it brings me a sense of surrender and peace...