“The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.” (Gary Zukav)
Paul is dying.
In the month since Thanksgiving, when he wasn’t feeling well, doctors removed his colon and diagnosed him with stage 4 cancer. And the cancer had spread.
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I learned this Monday.
On Tuesday, Paul chose to enter hospice. According to his niece, Shannon, Paul was “at peace with his decision.” She added that he “stated that he has lived a good life and that God allowed him to live a much longer life than he should have after beating cancer the first time.”
