Comments for Julie Martin http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com Keeping in Touch Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:29:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Catching Up by Kevin http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/catching-up/#comment-278 Kevin Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:29:56 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=352#comment-278 Hi Julie, I am so glad that Brian is doing better, it is nice to know that you have each other...so in love and taking good care of the other. Talk soon, Kevin Hi Julie,

I am so glad that Brian is doing better, it is nice to know that you have each other…so in love and taking good care of the other.

Talk soon,

Kevin

]]> Comment on Back in the Game by Lynnette http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/back-in-the-game/#comment-277 Lynnette Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:06:38 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-277 Julie- We're all proud of how you have maintained relative sanity throughout these last two years. It is such a blessing to see you when we're both in the office and know that despite what you've gone through, you still have a smile for your friends. I have been inspired by you and your journey. Thank you for this great post. It will helped remind me that others may have different colored glasses than that which you were able to wear. Julie- We’re all proud of how you have maintained relative sanity throughout these last two years. It is such a blessing to see you when we’re both in the office and know that despite what you’ve gone through, you still have a smile for your friends. I have been inspired by you and your journey. Thank you for this great post. It will helped remind me that others may have different colored glasses than that which you were able to wear.

]]> Comment on Back in the Game by JimmyBean http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/back-in-the-game/#comment-276 JimmyBean Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:52:00 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-276 I don't know If I said it already but ...I'm so glad I found this site...Keep up the good work I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog. Thanks, :) A definite great read..Jim Bean I don’t know If I said it already but …I’m so glad I found this site…Keep up the good work I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog. Thanks, :)

A definite great read..Jim Bean

]]> Comment on Back in the Game by David http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/back-in-the-game/#comment-275 David Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:01:21 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-275 Jenny's comment says exactly what I was thinking after I read this. The Sloans have lost several important people in our lives this last year, and has had the surprising gift of bringing us all closer and more appreciative of each other. I don't think I'll ever take another day for granted ever again, especially days like today, where the weather is perfect and everyone just *is*. Jenny’s comment says exactly what I was thinking after I read this. The Sloans have lost several important people in our lives this last year, and has had the surprising gift of bringing us all closer and more appreciative of each other. I don’t think I’ll ever take another day for granted ever again, especially days like today, where the weather is perfect and everyone just *is*.

]]> Comment on Back in the Game by Jenny http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/back-in-the-game/#comment-274 Jenny Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:15:28 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-274 Julie, This is so beautifully written and insightful. Thank you for writing it. I'm thankful that you are back in the game with such acute awareness of what your old lenses looked like. Much love! Julie,
This is so beautifully written and insightful. Thank you for writing it. I’m thankful that you are back in the game with such acute awareness of what your old lenses looked like.
Much love!

]]> Comment on Expressions of Grief by Jenny http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/expressions-of-grief/#comment-269 Jenny Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:04:43 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=332#comment-269 Julie, this is really beautiful. I'd imagine you probably need to grieve over the loss of the old you and the loss of life you knew before cancer, a simpler, more naive life. How could you not? I too, cry daily over a blog of a woman I do not know. I guess that's one cool thing about the blogging world, you can really become attached to the stories of others and their journeys. You can relate, you'd never want to relate, and you genuinely FEEL for them. It opens up a whole world of stories where there is no end and it isn't make believe, you get to see how things really work out for them. Feel their raw emotions and see that things don't end tied in a bow. There is a sort of brave honesty that comes with writing a journal for others to read about your innermost thoughts. You are incredible. I hope you do know how loved you are and I'm glad that you make the choice every single day that life is always worth it, hard as it is. :) So glad to know you, my friend. Julie, this is really beautiful. I’d imagine you probably need to grieve over the loss of the old you and the loss of life you knew before cancer, a simpler, more naive life. How could you not? I too, cry daily over a blog of a woman I do not know. I guess that’s one cool thing about the blogging world, you can really become attached to the stories of others and their journeys. You can relate, you’d never want to relate, and you genuinely FEEL for them. It opens up a whole world of stories where there is no end and it isn’t make believe, you get to see how things really work out for them. Feel their raw emotions and see that things don’t end tied in a bow. There is a sort of brave honesty that comes with writing a journal for others to read about your innermost thoughts.

You are incredible. I hope you do know how loved you are and I’m glad that you make the choice every single day that life is always worth it, hard as it is. :) So glad to know you, my friend.

]]> Comment on Expressions of Grief by David S. http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/expressions-of-grief/#comment-268 David S. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:59:42 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=332#comment-268 Damn, that was beautiful. When I was younger, I thought grief was something to be feared, or avoided as much as possible. I seem to become more familiar with it each year however (some big losses in our neighborhood in the past months especially), and find that when experiencing or sharing grief I feel not only compassion for the one experiencing loss, but also a sense of connectedness that can't be found any other way. Crying is a good thing. And so is laughing, which I find often follows not long after. All part of the remembering of a former reality. Now I should quote Edie Brickell: "Throw me in the shallow water, before I get too deep." Damn, that was beautiful.

When I was younger, I thought grief was something to be feared, or avoided as much as possible. I seem to become more familiar with it each year however (some big losses in our neighborhood in the past months especially), and find that when experiencing or sharing grief I feel not only compassion for the one experiencing loss, but also a sense of connectedness that can’t be found any other way.

Crying is a good thing. And so is laughing, which I find often follows not long after. All part of the remembering of a former reality.

Now I should quote Edie Brickell: “Throw me in the shallow water, before I get too deep.”

]]> Comment on Long time, no post by Greg Martin http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/long-time-no-post/#comment-266 Greg Martin Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:12:09 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=328#comment-266 Hi Julie-- Glad you're back posting. Hope the hot weather hasn't made you insane. Jeanette and I are on the edge! Glad things are going well. Hey, who's the imposter Julie Martin who stole your profile? Apparently, she lives in the Bay Area. http://julieamartin.wordpress.com/ Hi Julie–

Glad you’re back posting. Hope the hot weather hasn’t made you insane. Jeanette and I are on the edge! Glad things are going well.

Hey, who’s the imposter Julie Martin who stole your profile? Apparently, she lives in the Bay Area.

http://julieamartin.wordpress.com/

]]> Comment on I’m being deported on Friday by Kay-Lynne http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/im-being-deported-on-friday/#comment-265 Kay-Lynne Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:54:25 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=320#comment-265 wow. I can relate to the fears, though you are much further along in the "cancer trip" than I am. wow. I can relate to the fears, though you are much further along in the “cancer trip” than I am.

]]> Comment on The Bridge Over the River Exhaustion by David S. http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/the-bridge-over-the-river-exhaustion/#comment-264 David S. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:22:15 +0000 http://jkaymartin.wordpress.com/?p=326#comment-264 Hey, good to catch up with your blog! I lost track of it for a while there. Work has been INSANE lately, home life just slightly less so, so I stopped reading stuff on the 'net for a while. Glad to see you hanging in there, and the dog is learning new tricks. Take care, DS Hey, good to catch up with your blog! I lost track of it for a while there. Work has been INSANE lately, home life just slightly less so, so I stopped reading stuff on the ‘net for a while. Glad to see you hanging in there, and the dog is learning new tricks.
Take care,
DS

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