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Cards on the Table | Love Letters for a Chemo Countdown
Done with chemo, Sarah shares her practice of asking her community to support her with a collective countdown calendar.
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Done with chemo, Sarah shares her practice of asking her community to support her with a collective countdown calendar.
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Hands deep in indigo, I turn the runner, still splotched with last Thanksgiving’s grease and candle wax. I couldn’t clean it. I tried. I open the screen door. A cold wind blows through.
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She collapses over the wheel, crying—there's no why. Home again, hands under the tap, a memory of her grandma rises. Then a text: bring chocolate. And she's out the door.
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She goes looking for greens, finds none. Back home, with the heat wilting her flowers, she notices what's still holding on—cuts it, culls it, and rearranges it into three small bouquets before her friends arrive tomorrow.
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Doors open and it begins to pour. Lorde sings from the car: "in my head, I do everything right." I haven’t been this week. One drop-off is camp. The next is college, and I’m sitting on her bed now, cleaning out her room, wondering what happens if I stop.
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Halfway through chemo, Sarah shares her puzzle practice, a template for hosting a retreat for yourself at home, and introduces new Revery Member Beth Ricciardone and her NY sound bath events.
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Three countries, eight weeks of family travel, and the energy framework I use to avoid a meltdown
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Sarah cuts her hair as an intentional practice in her breast cancer journey.
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Cake for breakfast. Last night's Black Forest, eaten this morning before anyone else is up. Yesterday contained a thousand lives—and I'm still eating it up.
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I'm melting. Sweat drips, tickles down my chest. The animals are agitated, too—no one escapes this steamy heat. I'm murderous, Sarah's voice note says.
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I put my face in the sun. It feels like a piece of summer—the light, the warmth, the longer days building. Time slows when I do this. And then speeds ahead when I'm not intentionally pausing like this. It's a little like raising kids.
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This is a reflection on surrender — showing up, making space, and trusting what grows wild. Sometimes nature does the planting. Sometimes that's enough.