All That Matters; Memoir from the Wellness Community of Greater Boston is an anthology by writers whose lives were changed by cancer. These eight diverse essays, celebrate life's simple pleasures, complicated relationships, periods of despair and moments of grace; and they illuminate the human capacity to draw from hardship, enduring wisdom. Written under the guidance, Peggy Rambach, author of Fighting Gravity an autobiographical novel about her life as the wife of Andre Dubus, Sr., this collection of memoir is a unique resource for healthcare professionals, cancer patients, survivors, and their families. But anyone can gain from reading these poignant, and life-affirming memoirs by authors who know, without a doubt, what really matters. Ms. Rambach, is a resident teaching/artist in healthcare with grant support from the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center as part of the Healing Arts; New Pathways to Health initiative in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Vermont Arts Exchange. She lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
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Brave and honest reminiscences about having cancer and valuing life,
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This collection of reminiscences by women who have been part of a memoir writing group at The Wellness Community of Greater Boston is candid , proud and fervent. The women writing express their valuing of life and family, and their observations of the experience of cancer, their own and those of the medical personnel working with them. One essay speaks symbolically of the loss and changes in one's sense of being young and attractive, describing a special hat that gave the woman writing a sense of specialness. In the end, there is a valuing of what is lost and what can be kept in her saving a picture of herself in the hat that has been lost. Another writer speaks with pride of being a veteran of cancer, having long outlived the initial predictions of survival with her illness. The title of the book is captured in the final piece, in which a woman describes valuing the moment, in an excursion to a Central Park bakery with her children. Hoping to be with her children through their life events, she savors the experience of that day. It is "all that matters".
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