...editorial
wellness news monthly online magazine of the Cancer Support Association of Western Australia Inc.
endings
(are new beginnings) a poem by Susan Haley
Wellness News e-magazine is published online and distributed free to members of the Cancer Support Association and subscribers. Wellness News magazine is dedicated entirely to environment, wellness and healing. The magazine is for people with cancer or serious health issues; for people who are well and want to maintain their good health naturally; and for complementary, alternative and integrative health professionals. Please enjoy your Wellness experience!
news team... Editor Mandy BeckerKnox editor.wellness@yahoo.com.au Editorial Consultant Dr. Peter Daale
Dear friends,
With an illness such as cancer comes
uncertainty and fear. Faced with issues of mortality we may start to ask the big questions as we look for real meaning and purpose in our relationships, work, lifestyle and beliefs. This can lead to both small and sweeping changes in all aspects of our lives as we focus on what is truly important and worthwhile and start to eliminate those things which don’t support our health and survival. Navigating these changes can be difficult and initially stressful. In this issue of Wellness News we look at how to be courageous and proactive in an age where courage has been replaced with a more receptive and passive approach to life. Happy reading this month! ✦ Love and peace, Mandy
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I can feel summer waning, a cooler dryness in the air. Is another season ending, or is it going somewhere? Has a summer that is over met an end that’s dead? Or simply wafted elsewhere, its warmth there to spread? As the sun leaves the horizon into the edge of night, Has it met its end forever, forever dead and gone from sight? Will there again be morning light now that the sun has gone? Will darkness now engulf me, or will a new beginning come? Will another pink-hued dawn give birth to yet another day? Or do the ends of setting suns forever stay away?
Do these tears of grief I feel rolling down my face Mean the death of joy has come? The death of happiness? Or are all endings circles that forever go around? Is there really such a thing as endings dead and bound? Does the death of one end give birth to new beginning? Do battles lost birth battles won and loss give birth to winning? When dead ends seem to loom ahead and walls begin to rise; When purpose and direction lie in shadow before your eyes, Never stand there lost! Look right, look left, look up or down. And then you’ll see the jewels adorning every ending’s crown.
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