Articles in the Rediscovering You Category
A Beautiful Christmas, Decorations Everywhere, Festive Garlands Hanging, Inspiring Joyous Kinder Laughter, Moving Non-believers On-toward Peace, Quieting Restive Souls, Tempering Unrest.
Very Worry-free Xmas,
Your Zitherists
If you haven’t already noticed, there are 26 words, written in grammatical sentences, each beginning with successive letters of the alphabet, starting with A and ending with Z. Pat Boran, an Irish poet, gets the credit for this exercise our group is doing over the holidays. It’s in his book, “The Portable Creative [ ... ]
Class Reports, Gather Yea Rosebuds, Getting On with Your Life, Happy Days are Near Again, Rediscovering You, Your Story/Your Legacy
Joanne was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Dec. of 2007, received chemo treatments from Jan.-April in 2008 and had some maintenance treatments after that. She has been in our WFW group for several years. She can, and does, write about her “Cancer time” as though it happened yesterday. But, happily, she can also write beautiful essays like this one that attest to her healing spirit.
The Clothes Line
Why does the new white retractable cord that runs from the [ ... ]
Class Reports, Getting On with Your Life, Recapturing Joy, Rediscovering You
How does it all come together? Take a remembered comment about Cancer at a Writing For Cancer meeting, add a rereading of the myth of Pandora, throw in a newletter from City of Hope, and you have a poem:
Pandora’s Box of Cancer
With cancer comes your own personal Pandora’s Box,
Full of pain, full of grief, and designed by Zeus just for you.
Radiation, Chemo, Anxiety and Depression fly out of that box,
Trying to conquer you, trying to overwhelm you.
But keep [ ... ]
Getting On with Your Life, Gifts and Blessings, Lessons Learned, Rediscovering You
At a recent WFW meeting I gave a writing prompt which was general enough to allow each participant to take it just about anywhere. One of the newer members had difficulties because the prompt was not specific enough for her. She wanted very exact instructions on the subject matter she was to write about. I was reminded of a tightly wrapped rose bud that has the possibility of blooming, of opening up wide, to welcoming in the sunlight. That rose bud needs nurturing [ ... ]