A SMALL HANDFUL OF ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND SOURCES OF INSPIRATION FOR WRITING AND HEALING
Hope in Bloom
A non-profit in West Newton, Massachusetts whose
mission is to plant a garden, free of charge, for anyone in
Massachusetts undergoing treatment for breast cancer. The group was inspired by a long friendship between the founder, Roberta
Hershon, and her friend of fifty years, Beverly Eisenberg, an avid
gardener who died of breast cancer in 2005. Lovely photos, with stories, here.
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The Robert's Street Chaplet Project
A
project of six small "art chapels" originally located in North Dakota
and created by the artist Marjorie Schlossman in collaboration with six
architects. She describes her hopes for the project thus: "I was
hoping that this project would be a bunch of little jewels on the
prairie." An eighteen-minute film about the project, Collaboration and Constraints,
produced by Mary Trunk, is available online at the site. Watching the
film is a way to experience the project--to watch the creative process
unfold--and to experience a series of potentially healing spaces.
Favorite quote from the chaplet film--a quote by the artist, Marjorie Schlossman: "I have a tremendous faith that art makes a difference."
[Thank you to Catherine Miyamoto of Fargo for leading me to this project.]
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Writing Through Cancer
Sharon
Bray of Wellspring Writers in San Diego has started a new online site
of weekly writing prompts for people living with cancer. My favorite
prompt this month (April 2008) is called Seeds of Hope and includes an
excerpt from a poem by Wendell Berry, "Prayers and Sayings of the Mad
Farmer."
