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All About Love

Not Done

February 6, 2026February 9, 2026 Vanessa Able

The hardest battles of cancer often give rise to the most resilience, wisdom and love. BY NOAH LANE BROWNE

Tagged breast cancer, cancer, Care, chemo, grief, illness, love, radiation, Resilience, Suffering, support, survival, treatment, Wisdom2 Comments
All About Love

Telomeres: A Strange Fate

June 19, 2025June 18, 2025 Vanessa Able

Love, loss and the biology of endings. BY DAVID WHITEHURST

Tagged cancer, dog, grief, illness, loss, love, memory, pet, telomeres, transitionLeave a comment
All About Love

The Gift

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 Vanessa Able

Love, hope, and reality; are woven and wrapped together. BY NANCY FRANCESE

Tagged cancer, chemotherapy, Children, family, Gift, giving, grief, illness, loss, love, presentLeave a comment
Now and Then
All About Love

Now and Then

February 21, 2024February 20, 2024 Vanessa Able

BY CAMILLE GOODISON - Rediscovering the strength and joy in a family's legacy, and appreciating the similarities and differences.

Tagged cancer, family, fruit, illness, Jamaica, Joy, loss, love, strength1 Comment
Virginia Woolf
Book Bits

‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Vanessa Able

Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.

Tagged Body, health, illness, interruption, language, Literature, Mind, perception, SpiritualityLeave a comment
All About Love

Malignant – A Love Story

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CYNDY CENDAGORTA As her friend fell sick while she fell in love, she realized we don't get to choose our miracles or our malignancies.

Tagged Death, friendship, illness, love, miracles, relationship, triangulation1 Comment
All Real Living
All About Love

All Real Living

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY JOHN JACOBSON A husband and wife live together with a rare neurological disease. The illness profoundly changed their love and brought about a search for meaning.

Tagged Care, illness, love, marriage, meaning, nature, philosophy, support2 Comments

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget
    Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • Mary Oliver - To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
    Mary Oliver - To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
  • Alain de Botton on Why We Marry the Wrong People
    Alain de Botton on Why We Marry the Wrong People

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • A Year of Kō: 8th Sekki
    8th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND AND JOSEPH PALMER
  • Sarah Reichert – Divine Struggle
    Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem "Divine Struggle".
  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.

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