Cinco Vidas

Natural science writer and anthropologist Loren Eisley once said, “If there is magic in the planet, it is contained in the water.” Landscape contractor Nathan Heinert knows this well, but not because of any official study on the matter. He doesn’t have a Ph.D. in H2O. He has, however, spent many hours watching water and nature transform the lives of cancer patients and their families.

“We would finish a landscape project for someone,” Nathan says, “and we’d be cleaning up when they would come home and see the pond or the fountain or whatever we had done for them, and nine times out of ten they’d drop everything to focus on this new space and just be with their families and with nature. Instantly, all their cares were gone.” (more…)

You bought that wig to help you get through chemotherapy, but now you’re done and your hair is growing back. What should you do with your second set of locks?

“If your wig is just being stored,” says StarWish 624, “send it on to continue its good work. It feels good to help other BC [breast cancer] sisters.”

“Today, I shampooed, conditioned, and combed my old wig,” says survivor Jacki. “It sits drying on my bathroom counter. When it’s all done and pretty, I’ll mail it off to my friend Carmen, who just the other day had her first chemotherapy for breast cancer.” (more…)