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Living with Dying: Thoughts on friendship and cancer
I get by with a little help from my friends
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Team Sakura and the Tour de Pink
And so they ride. Team Sakura rides to get back at cancer, they ride to support each other, and they ride because they can.
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Remembering Candice
We talked about how difficult it is to describe Candice, and have people really understand just how awesome she was, or how deeply her absence is felt, about the urge to insist, "But you don't understand! This was CANDICE!" Of course people didn't understand, unless they'd met her. You only had to meet her once to really get it.
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A circle of women
A circle of young women supporting each other through breast cancer.
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Friends
Have you ever watched little kids make friends? It blows me away with it's simplicity and straightforwardness. I'm learning from this kind of authenticity.
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for Michele
Michele had a way of telling her story so that it didn’t terrify the newly diagnosed girls. She would spin the story each time, so it came out with a message, a little moral or lesson to tie up the anecdote like the “you see, Timmy” at the end of each episode of Lassie.
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Traveling Companions
The second anniversary of my cancer diagnosis is quickly approaching. Of course it has me thinking. A lot. Not all the thoughts are happy thoughts, but that just comes with the territory. But some of those thoughts are happy thoughts. Warm, fuzzy, happy thoughts. Like the girls I met because I have cancer. These are women I would have been proud to count among my friends even before diagnosis, but I can’t imagine a scenario in which I would have met any of them outside of cancer. This weekend a group of us traveled to New Orleans to a conference for young women with breast cancer. We learned about treatment…
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Why Mommy: remembering Susan Niebur
In the cold, dark, fear of 3 a.m., when the cancer patient is most alone, I found ToddlerPlanet, a blog written by cancer fighting princess warrior, awesome mommy, and astrophysicist, Susan Niebur (also known as @whymommy).
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The camera bag – and an epiphany
Each time I reach for my camera, I am reminded of this generosity, and as I look through my lens at the world, I do so with a sense of gratitude and magic, and I hope that will show in my photographs.
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Community
Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011? (Reverb 10 – Day 7 / Prompt Author: caligater) I started 2010 with my thoughts on community. I enjoy my friends individually, but I missed belonging to a circle of friends. It’s been a long time since I had local friends who were friends with each other. It’s even more complicated now that some have kids, and some don’t. Schedules don’t sync up, we go weeks without seeing each other, and I end up craving grownup conversation. I was looking for a community to join…
