Tag Archives: breast cancer

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Cleaning Up

In my trolling through the web, I often come across interesting tidbits to share. Here are some of the things I’ve stumbled across lately.

Sam

Learn more about the Art Cure Diaries, a book about a breast cancer awareness art project.

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Here’s another clever ad, to raise awareness about breast cancer in men.

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Check out this  music video by a young cancer patient. I love the way these young people put themselves out there.

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A creative public service announcement to encourage women to do breast self-examinations.

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Here’s a fun link to a past event. It’s a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Foundation – a fashion show of clothes designed by famous designers ….all made from toilet paper! Here’s a short video documentary about the show.

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This has nothing to do with cancer, but everything to do with creativity and world peace.  Here’s to more dancing in the world.

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And then, just for fun and more dancing…. Here are the Resolutionaries (long live marimba!)

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Ultra Sounds Monday, January 30

Today’s submission is the first of an exciting four-part series. The poetry comes from a women named Barbara Crooker, a talented and  accomplished poet from the U.S.  I have fallen in love with  many of Barbara’s poems.   (www.barbaracrooker.com)  The four featured poems are taken from a collection that Barbara wrote about a close friend who was diagnosed with cancer .

Irene Miller, a talented and accomplished photographer from Stratford, Ontario has created a picture to accompany each poem. ( http://www.imillerphoto.com/)

Enjoy part I of this powerful duet.

Sam

 

 

FAITH

By Barbara Crooker

When my friend calls, long distance, early one Saturday morning,

I listen, knowing there’s something wrong, think it’s her

eighty year old mother, surely not her, she’s younger than I am,

only forty.  When she says, “I have breast cancer,” there’s a quiet

on the line, as I search for something to say.  And then she

tells me it’s spread to her spine, and there are no words for this.

 

And because there is nothing I can do, I go out to the garden,

dig the hard March ground, turn over ice crystals in the cold dark

soil, and plant peas, little grey pebbles, tuck them in with a slap

and a chink that might be a substitute for prayer.

 

For in spite of everything, June will come again, and those little

pairs of leaves will make their run for it, ladder up the air.

And these peas will fill their pods with sweet green praise.

 

 

Sweet Green Praise by Irene Miller

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Meet Lenore

Found this great posting by Jane Underwood, a woman with breast cancer who runs a school for creative writing in San Francisco. I thought this post was too good to miss. In the post, she describes a morning with her other self, a woman named Lenore. Very funny. It’s called “Lenore I and wrestle with the lump”.

http://www.open.salon.com/blog/janeun/2011/09/20/life_death_high_heels_cheesecake_breast_lumps_more

Sam

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Uneasy Pink

Check out this great blog entry on the use of pink as an emblem in breast cancer education and fundraising. I thought it addressed a contentious issue with thoughtfulness and graciousness. The woman who wrote it, Katie Ford Hall, hosts a blog called Uneasy in Pink.

http://journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2010/10/27/guest-blog-pink-intentions/

Sam

ps – This just in. There is a new book of Canadian poetry about cancer that has just been released. You can read more about it at http://www.leafpress.ca/Fiona-Tinwei-Lam/The-Bright-Well.htm