Letters to the editor: December
December 4, 2009 by admin
Filed under Letters to the editor, Perspective
Props to us
I am a big fan of your magazine. I live in Las Vegas, NV.
We communicated earlier after I picked up your magazine in Boulder at the “Conference on World Affairs” last April. I tried to get a subscription, but the best I have been able to do is to get a friend of mine to pick it up and mail it to me each month. It’s the best magazine ever.
— Sharon Cruse, of Las Vegas
To know or not to know: fate with breast cancer
I just wanted you to know that I enjoyed your article in September (“The Future Could be Beautiful,” by Leah Charney, on breast cancer). As one of the longest living people with my disease, I appreciate hearing about other women’s challenges and how they overcome them. Thank you for sharing.
— Kitty L. deKieffer, of Boulder
I appreciate the openness, honest and the vulnerably you shared in your recent article (“The Future Could be Beautiful,” by Charney). Thank you. I was deeply moved. Thank you.
One of the greatest gifts you offered is the invitation for women to look with Awareness at what we fear about our body, how we may be identifying with the body/breasts, how secure we feel as women with or without our breasts, etc.
Whether male or female, each of us has much to offer the world. It is our Spirit, our creativity, our Love, our Light, and all that we allow of our True Nature to shine that gifts the world.
In the last year, I have seen a remarkable increase in women with breast cancer. Some have had the BRCA gene and discovered it after they started on the cancer journey. As you witness your mother discover more of who she is when the cancer returned for her, I have also witnessed amazing women here in Boulder cope with and rise above their diagnosis, becoming stronger and more committed to life, to fulfilling their purpose, to loving and appreciating each moment of life.
For me that last paragraph of your article says it all: that being afraid of the test is a waste of time. Absolutely! It’s disempowering. You don’t need to have the test to let go of the fear. You can choose to have the test or not have it — however it is absolutely of utmost importance to let go of fear.
There is a saying, “Fear it, appear it.” We attract what we hold in mind, and our fears hang in our field. Our thoughts, our feelings, our beliefs — through chemical reactions — can suppress a gene or even activate a gene. That is why our thoughts, feelings, fears, etc. are what shapes our life experiences.
— Cynthia Whipple, of Boulder
