A Summer Sabbatical Signoff

I’ll be taking a brief sabbatical from blogging while on a road trip to visit family and friends back in my sizzling hometown (where the overnight low temperature will likely exceed the daytime high temperature here in suburban Monument, CO). For all of you bloggers, facebook page hosts, discussion board posters and others who provide hope, support and encouragement to your fellow melanoma warriors by sharing your stories, here’s a new version of Jimmy Buffett’s and Zac Brown’s fine duet, “Free/Into The Mystic”…



So we live out all our time span
Bloggin’ all across this land
Me and you

We'll end up with sore hands
Tales of hope for our band
Just me and you

Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
Just as free
Free as we’ll ever be

We'll write until our iPad screen
Blows up into some smithereens
Just you and me

Lay underneath the CT scan
Do all the things our doctors plan
Just you and me

Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
and ever ---- be

I was born before the wind
Also older than the sun
And the bonnie fight begun ... as I sailed into the clinic

Hark, now hear the doctors cry
Curse disease and heal this guy
Let my soul and spirit fly into the clinic

And when that IV flows ... I will be cancer free, baby
And when that IV flows ... I want to beat it ... I don't have to fear it
I want to stop this cancer cold ... still knowing that my dreams are bold
And together we will float ... into the clinic

No we don't want a lot of money
No we don't want a lot of money
No we don't want a lot of money
No we don't want a lot of money
No we don't want a lot of money
No we don't want a lot of money
No we don't want a lot of money
All we want is cures

We’re free as we’ll ever be
Just as free
Free as we’ll ever be

So we'll live out all our time span
Keep bloggin’ all across this land
Me and you