See the beauty in all things …

See the beauty in all things …

and you become that beauty!  See the love in life, and you will see that Life is about love. In a recent Create to Heal ™ class at Glendale Adventist, we wrote about what was on our mind in that moment.  One patient let go of the dialogue in her head and let the...
Rebirth

Rebirth

REBIRTH  by KIMIE CHO Rebirth, rebirth, rebuild Birth Birth Everyday is my birthday I am reborn everyday. Everyday is a new day. I make a new start everyday. Everyday, I put away the bad things that happened to me So I can move forward. Everyday, I still face...
Patients Write about Hope

Patients Write about Hope

Last Friday’s creativity class at Glendale Adventist Cancer Services was devoted to a writing assignment and canvas piece entitled The Lotus Blossom.  As the writing and creativity blossomed, we saw that the images were of a garden, a garden of hope. Here are...
Illuminate and Create!

Illuminate and Create!

I would like to share a beautiful piece by MaryAnn Montanez, cancer survivor, who attends my Creativity classes at Huntington Memorial.  While we listened to harp and violin music, she wrote: A Violin, A Harp Musical Melodies respond to healing sounds in my soul....
Tiempo es Oro … Time is Gold

Tiempo es Oro … Time is Gold

I am reminded through the beauty, grace and sincerity of each domestic violence victim I meet that time is gold … time is precious … time is now.  In today’s class at Haven House, one of the clients was bemoaning the fact that she let her children...
Healing is …

Healing is …

One of the exercises I take my cancer patients through in my Write to Heal class is the simple scribbling and doodling about what it means to heal. What does it mean to heal? According to the dictionary:heal  (hl) v. healed, heal·ing, heals v.tr. 1. To restore to...