This month our lives have been ruled by threats of cancer. It takes over your thoughts and feelings and enters every “node” of life. It becomes the king of the waiting game and meanwhile grows and grows until every cell of the players are involved. What a cruel ruler it is. And yet...time stands still and players are permitted to redeem themselves. Life itself is seen as fragile and sacred and a thing  to be relished. Is that a gift of the cancer itself?