[CML] For my CML Friends

[Susan Loewenkamp]

I wrote this for people who are having a particularly tough time right now but it's for everyone fighting this disease whether you're in PCRU, at 100% positive or somewhere in between.   YELLOW   I like almost all colors – not equally – and of course it depends on how they’re used and in what quantity.  Clothing is particularly vulnerable to the unfortunate taste of people who choose the colors of the stripes, the decoration and what to use in uni-colored garments.  What makes a beautiful small flower on a neckline does not necessarily mean a dress should be wholly that color.  The design makes a difference.  Everything makes a difference.   Take yellow for example.  I love the buttery rich hue – not too bright like children’s blocks.  I loved my mother’s yellow kitchens – cheerful but you didn’t have to wear sunglasses at breakfast.  Bananas are attractive when they’re just past green partially because of that silky thick skin.  Renee Zellwegger’s long yellow dress at the Oscars a few years ago showed up in every newspaper because no one else wore yellow.  It was beautiful and there’s a lesson in that.   There’s a Korean melon at my favorite market that’s bright as sunshine but beautiful because the fruit is small and has a lovely shape that would make elegant lampshades if made of glass.  If lemons are shaped right and really look like lemons then they’re pretty.  But, if they’re from someone’s backyard – lumpy and disfigured that looks like a knobby face that would grumble if it could talk – just forget it.      Think of all the beautiful yellow things on earth – tropical fish, pineapple, golden potatoes, daffodils, roses, the yellow petal on violas, canaries who warn of poison in the air, summer squash that are many hues of yellow in one vegetable, Butter melting on a split baking powder biscuit, steam rising, just a little too soon to eat.   Sunshine – God’s fiery discus hurled across the sky whose hot light bounces off everything in summer and then hangs behind the gray clouds of winter more like the cold moon than the swirl of flames that it is.   I like to wear yellow because it’s cheerful even when it’s close to cream.  It brightens my mood and hopefully that of those around me.  I wear a LiveStrong Lance Armstrong Foundation yellow bracelet now as a symbol of hope for cancer patients.  I’m one, too, and I like my bracelet.  It’s a reminder to live strong and to show others that I support them, too.    The joyful color of yellow is everything cancer is not which makes the bracelet even more appropriate although it’s that color because of the tradition of the Tour de France.  It’s doesn’t matter the reason – it’s perfect.  Yellow used to stand for cowardice.  Now it stands for courage.    You can get the bracelets from the Lance Armstrong Foundation in lots of 10 for $10 and, as a cancer patient, you can get a free 3-4ing binder with survival tips, all kinds of good information and places for journal writing.  You just pay the shipping.  I got 10 bracelets and the book for $19.05 and it comes in about 3 days.   Have a great week!   Love, Susan L     New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: cml@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML SPONSORED LINKS Chronic myelogenous leukemia Cml YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "CML" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.