Status Updates From The Cancer Journals

Forward notes:

“Poetry is not a luxury”

this “view of poetry clarified my own inclination to disappear at times into my own head I was not merely daydreaming or escaping from life, I was passing into places ancient and hidden within myself”

“-anger as a dynamic process- a source of growth and change”

"...the concentration upon breast cancer as a cosmetic problem, one which can be solved by a prosthetic pretense. The American Cancer Society's Reach For Recovery Program [...] encourages this false and dangerous nostalgia in the mistaken belief that women are too weak to deal directly and courageously with the realities of our lives."

Oh so actually- i don't think i can come out of this the same

a reread because I cannot stay away (also for “play” “research”). following my urge to reread beloved books.