What happens when cancer invades sensitive, creative people? The rest of us lucky bastards receive their hard-won insight. Amy is many things - artist, chef, teacher - but in this post, she's just human.
"If you want to live with excitement and zest you just can't aim for comfortable, you have to aim well outside the limits you've always set for yourself in the past. For me that means being my authentic self, flaws and all, vibrantly and ridiculously and without apology. It means making mistakes and celebrating the glory of well-intentioned failure. It means going after people I admire and inviting them into my life."
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