#Microblog Monday 545: Roundup Anniversary
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Like I said on Friday, today marks the 19th anniversary of the first Friday Blog Roundup back in 2006.
What is amazing is that there are still posts I think about, so many years later. One that continues to bring me enormous comfort — and I’ve linked to it many times before — is Toddler Planet’s “ It’s Not Fair.” She wrote it about six months before she died from metastatic breast cancer. These lines may not make sense without reading the longer parable contained in the post, but I think about them all the time: “We each get one life, one daily wage, and that’s it. The guy next door gets one life to live. The mom down the street gets one too. No one ever promised us the same life, the same opportunities, the same blessings, or the same time to live. No one ever promised that. We are promised one opportunity, one life, and how we live it is between us and our Creator (I believe). There is no comparing.”
She did a lot of amazing things while she was on this planet, and I’m eternally grateful for her writing, which put the imbalance of the world into perspective and gave a frame for considering all moments. I hope that if you are also finding this time tumultuous and upsetting, her words help ground you.
And please share what moved you. The posts you remember, so many years later.
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Oh, I love that post from Toddler Planet, and I love when you relink to it. I found Mali’s Infertility’s Waiting Room post to be immensely helpful when I was in the considering stages of resolving without children. I come back to it over and over and it is a post that I send to people often who need to hear the message.
Here’s the link to the post, meant to attach it:
https://nokiddinginnz.blogspot.com/2014/03/infertilitys-waiting-room.html
One post that I always remember is sharah’s post about infertility as an island. I think you took the title of your book from it, didn’t you?? I don’t have it bookmarked and can’t find a link via Google, but I do think about it from time to time — it was a great analogy!
Another one (actually two) I often find myself thinking about, especially around Christmastime, is Emilie’s last post on her blog, lemmondrops, on Dec. 19, 2008 (essentially her farewell) — and then the post from her husband less than a week later, on Christmas Eve, telling us all that she had died. Those kids would be young adults now. I wonder if they have ever read their mother’s blog?
Emilie’s blog, with the last few posts at the top:
https://lemmondrops.blogspot.com/
I am at my parents’ house and my time is not always my own here…! so I’m not sure I will have a #MM post this week, but I am reading!