The Politics of Donating to Breast Cancer…

There are many ways to donate to breast cancer AND many areas of breast cancer support one can donate to.

Why Did My Mother Die from Breast Cancer?

…no one should skip mammograms or other tests, including self examinations, as doing so can greatly reduce one’s life and the quality of one’s life.

The Meditation Garden

A support group at UMass medical center said they suggested she meditate daily for 20 minutes or so. She tried. She said she didn’t like it and couldn’t do it.

Sitting Quiet

When you do that, you empower yourself to be able to change those things outside of you that you have the ability to change. You are more ‘OK’ with those things you cannot change and you will intuitively understand the difference between the two.

Day lily, Peony and Hosta Bed

In 1991, the bed consisting of standard yellow day lilies were transplanted to one of the children’s house and a more varied bed was planted in it’s stead. The new day lily bed contained many different colors of day lilies as well as multicolored stargazer and star-thrower varieties.

Dish Garden

This sundial is now in the ‘dish garden’ Originally the dish garden was called that because it was designed around and to hide, (or at least to make look as sculpture), a large satellite dish.

Bleeding Hearts

As with Weeping Cherries, Bleeding Hearts remind me of my Mother’s 7 year battle with breast cancer. Even more, perhaps, than weeping cherries. Bleeding Hearts are a beautiful plant.

Weeping Cherry

Weeping Cherries along with Bleeding Hearts remind me of my Mother and the battle she endured for 7 years it took breast cancer to take her away. Her joy was gardening. For almost 40 years she created a series of gardens on an eight acre area surrounding the house I grew up in.