The Joy Journey of Kelly Barkhurst
About this joy journey:
Daughter of Patricia Barnes, this site's namesake, I am a young, married mother, cancer-free and trying to live each day to the fullest.
Jul 29
- A second delicious NYC meal with my good friend and colleague, Maureen.
- Waking up to the sounds of New York City.
Jul 15
- "But I was learning that when the date you're commemorating represents the day your life changes forever, and not in a thrilling marry-the-love-of-your-life kind of way or a shocking assassination of the leader of the free world way, but in a bracingly personal and intimate way you must take notice. You have to honor the passage of time…everything before it was experienced through different eyes and in different skin. Fundamentally something changed. There is a bold line of demarcation drawn with a thick black Sharpie across your chest and underneath it in small print it reads, there is no going back." -- Excerpt from Jude Callirgos's book, Breast Left Behind Last week commemorated 9-years since my mother's death. I will miss her and love her forever.
- "We knew this time not to take it for granted. I started taking mental pictures of the random and wonderful ordinary activity in that hotel room." Jude Callirgos from the book "Breast Left Unsaid"