Lately, I have asked you What’s More Important To You Than Your Fears and confessed the return of The Mountain Under My Rug. Now, as I pack up my apartment; sell my furniture; work on my book; and make plans to travel through the USA and Canada to connect with other survivors about My Big Hairy Audacious Dream; it’s easy for me to get buried under an onslaught of “to-dos” and forget to appreciate the moment (something I swore I would never do after finishing treatment for cancer).

But, when I do take a moment to reflect on the past 9 months, I am overwhelmed by gratitude. When I wrote the post entitled What Are Your Three Words? on December 31, 2010, I could not have imagined how many moments of feeling healthy, inspired, and loved waited for me in 2011.

Moments…isn’t this the lesson Nadine Stair Tried to Teach us in, “If I Had My Life to Live Over“?

Oh, I've had my moments,
  And if I had it to do over again,
    I'd have more of them.
  In fact, I'd try to have nothing else.
    Just moments, one after another,
  instead of living so many years ahead of each day.

What are your best moments of 2011 so far? Moments when the stresses of your life dropped away and for just a few seconds, you could feel the rustle of the wind on your face or the hot sun at your back. Moments when you appreciated stillness and quiet. Moments when you felt filled with hope about your future.

Here are a few of mine… (more…)