Tag Archive for: cancer

Circles at cancer retreats
Cancer post, Front page post, In Your OrganizationWhen illness enters our life experience, a spiritual change can occur. We can feel alone—outsiders to the vital flow of energy that sustains us when we’re in community. One antidote for feelings of isolation is to belong, to find kindred…

A culture of healing
Cancer post, Front page post, Uncategorized“Third culture kids” are children who are raised in a culture (or several) other than the one that is native to them. They grow up feeling that they don’t truly belong in their adoptive countries or in their country of origin. My father…

Preventing cancer while supporting those who have it
Cancer post, UncategorizedI was diagnosed with invasive ductal breast cancer in 2009 at the age of 52, when both my children were teenagers. I had three surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation while trying to maintain my career as an attorney at a small housing and community…

Finding My Tribe
Cancer post
I need to build my own support network.
The young neighbors who walk our dog Maude
The NHS volunteer who’s in a rock band drives me to and from the hospital in their van
The friend who gives me beeswax lip balm with kind messages—"bee…

Dying without an elephant
Grief post, Kelly LindsayToward the end of my brother’s life, he spent every waking hour in a faux-leather armchair by his living room window. He was companioned by the puff-puff-puffing of an oxygen concentrator, a walker with a basket full of pills, a laptop that…

Let the Sacred Festivities Begin
Kelly LindsayChristina Baldwin was the "sacred emcee" at Kelly Lindsay's celebration of life. What follows is her introduction, which makes more sense if you kept up with Kelly's CaringBridge blog. Christina and Ann Linnea are founders of The Circle Way…

Poems and Essays Written in Honor of Kelly
Kelly LindsayGathering
by Gary Vallat (written after a massive circle for Kelly that took place at Soundview Center)
For Kelly and Diana Lindsay
The crowd enters the sanctuary
milling about appreciating
the beauty of the place,
anticipating the…

Tributes to Kelly Lindsay
Cancer post, Kelly LindsayTributes from Healing Circles Langley
Kitty Adams: Kelly’s mind was brilliant, but it was his warm welcome that drew me into HCL. In my raw state after the death of my husband, every time I walked through that door, Kelly greeted me with…

A Conversation with a Widow’s Nervous System
Addressing Meaningful Questions, Cancer post, Grief postThe pain of loss is such an isolating experience, where the outside and inside of us are not aligned. We are out of sync with humanity, and yet we are inside an experience that each and every one of us will have.

‘I Am Rushing:’ a Mantra of Love and Memory
Addressing Meaningful Questions, Cancer post, Grief postI have just returned from spending time with a dear friend and her husband. They are living in what I have come to call “Illness Time” not a period of time spent ill, but time itself defined by illness.