We Need Not Walk Alone®
CONTENTS
Winter 2004/2005
Features
Let the World Know By R.R. Lawrence,
Linda K. Lawrence and Greta Howard
I had no energy. I was either always sleeping or never sleeping. I had no
desire to see people or to go anywhere. I began to notice things and feel things
that I didn't know how to deal with...
We Can Never Return to Pleasantville By Bill
Sowers
We shed sparkling crystaline tears reflecting a pain that springs from an
ocean of courage that kept us going through days, months and years of treatments,
transplants, and tragedy. Pride for our children, all of our children, glows deeply
within us like the magenta colors of the sky in a setting sun.
Making a Difference: Racing for Hope
Lionel
Chaiken knows alot about brain tumors. Not because he's a world-reknowned surgeon,
or even an esteemed scientist who has devoted his life to research. Lionel's
commitment has a more heart-wrenching motivation - his daughter, Pamela Sue, who died from
a primary brain tumor.
"SonShine"
and Time
by David Feaga
I
know the crack will never heal, but hopefully over time the "SonShine" will
overtake the rain and allow the heart and leather to become one so our hearts can beat
strongly again.
Riding the Beast By John Harris
In grieving the loss
of our child, we ride a wild, screaming beast, we are forced to mount and ride until the
day we reach the end of our own lives.
Letters from a Place of Healing and Peace
Dear Family and Friends By Mary
and Mark Westra
Just after
the first Christmas without Peter and before the first birthday after his death, his
twenty-fifth, I felt compelled to reach out to family and to try to tell them again
explicity how they could help us in keeping his memory alive.
Possibilities By
Rosemari Clogher
With possibilities there are no deadlines - no voice of doom to shout our
lack of effort and accomplishment. Possibilities can be very simple with few demands
but with amazing results and satisfaction.
Lighting the Way: 28th
National TCF Conference in Boston MA
Healing in Hidden
Places
Aurora on a Cold Winter's Night By Marianne Lohrman
When I worry about forgetting Jim over the passage of time, I recall the auroara. It
lighted one night briefly, yet after a year I still remember it vividly, I may forget some
of the details of Jim's life, but I will never forget the essence of his humanity and
spirit. He was and will always remain a light in my life.
Departments
From the Exec's Desk: ...By
Pat Loder
TCF Patrons
Foundation Donors
Friends, Caring and Sharing
TCF's in-house newsletter for chapter leaders and steering committee members is
incorporated here. Many items will be of interest to both membership and friends of the
organization.
For Brothers &
Sisters
For My Sister, Valinda By Valisha Watchman
I have heard so many
times that when someone dies they are not really gone because their memory lives on in
loved ones. This statement has become true. I see this in my life everyday.
My sister lives in me. She lives in my children. She lives in everyone she
touched.
Ask Dr. Paulson
Left Behind...Siblings in Grief By Mitch Carmody
Where do I fit in this
great puzzle of grief? What part do I play in the healing of a family's pain?
Book Review
When
Winter Follows Spring: Surviving the Death of an Adult Child By Dorothy Ferguson..Reviewed
by Joy Johnson
Poetry
Dear
Janell By Elizabeth Allen
TIME
By Robyn Church Wolf
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