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When: Monday, June 9 7:30PM ET

Who gets 10%: FOODLINK https://www.foodlinkma.org / They’re down the street. I see the trucks pull up to Whole Foods in the AM to get yesterday’s stuff for redistribution. And that’s just a teeny part of what they do

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*PRIVATE COACHING AVAILABLE - Contact me (vance@vancegilbert.com) for songwriting, performance, and voice coaching.

***CUSTOM SONGS - Expensive, but sure, you want one about you or your family or something.**

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CHEMO….. CHEMO…..CHEMO….CHEMO…... PLEASE PLEASE ME ETC…

I promised someone, it may have been me, that this bloggy stuff would not be dominated by my cancer journey thing. I lie. It’ll be about what it be about.

Some quotes and my reactions below:

~ "I probably shouldn’t add insult to injury, but I don’t want to carry toxic shit around with me (proceeds to tell me off about things I never said I would do…)..."I also want to feel better about and for you as you deal with all that you are having to struggle with now”. - STUDENT X

You’re wrong about it all, and you should have waited. Grown-ups carry toxic around until time and situation dictate when and where to dump. Cleary you’re struggling. Yikes. Whatever step program this is make me not part. (Update...apology arrived but yikes)

~ "The primary fight is against the tyranny of expectations. Do the work that is directly in front go you today - and again tomorrow” - DON WHITE

~ “Hi Vance! Saw these socks and thought of you" - DEE NIXON. Well yeah they were airplane socks.

~ "I do believe the power of prayer has no limit. Neither does the power of love. Loving you and praying for you does not limit the love and prayers for others in the world” - BONNIE HALLMAN-DYE.

I got spooked that the prayer bucket for me would be full and taking prayers away from sick children and puppies and stuff. Bonnie set me straight.

~ Blank piece of paper and a check - MICHAEL LAVENDER. (from a lawyer no less?)

~ “Beat this damn thing, Vance!” - JAN LUBY

~ “You are a cancer survivor once you have a diagnosis” - STEVE DAVIS

~ “I’m sorry to hear of your diagnosis, and pray you will get well and get back to singing soon” - PRES BRUNING, OLD WHITE MAN to me for 40 years, one of top 10 airplane model builders in the whole world, handwritten in between bouts of dementia when he recalled being told I was ill, so this is nested against my very heart

~ “Forget the concept that you are going to fight this. Ridiculous. Your treatment will either work or it will notIt is out of your control” - LINDA, a neighbor...
- Me “nah. I’ll fight, but thanks for the viewpoint”

MY MAILMAN is praying for me. MY AUNT AMY wanted me to pray with her over the phone, exam waiting room be damned. I’m not particularly Christian, but I did. She’s my aunt amy and she’s 102 years old and still drives, so...

~Lastly, I’ll showed this AI pic I sent to my very serious, very Chinese radiology doctor DR. ANNIE CHAN to see her reaction and she just shrugged and said: "See bright light tip? That's me killing cancer!!! That my blond phase many years ago…"