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Fighting Cancer, One Joke at a Time
Below is a reel from the Jokes 4 Miles campaign, which is soliciting jokes to help 19-year-old Miles Austrevich laugh his way through cancer treatment. If you’d like to submit a joke, you can do it through the Jokes 4 Miles website.
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“Ghost Light” by Greg Cummings
A play that uses theatrical symbolism to explore loss, memory, and the enduring impact of those we’ve lost“Ghost Light,” which just finished its month-long stint at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, explores the murders of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone by delving into the tremulous relationship between Moscone and his son, Jonathan Moscone. Written by Tony Taccone, the play takes a very intimate perspective due to the fact that the mayor’s…
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Jokes From Around the World Help Teen Fight Cancer
Miles Austrevich has been fighting brain cancer on and off since 2008. While he’s in the hospital, his father, comedian Len Austrevich, has asked his son’s schoolmates, doctors, comedians, celebrities, and strangers to send jokes to help Miles laugh his way through his treatment. His goal is to get 5,000 people to tape a quick…
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“Requiem”
Robert Louis Stevenson drives a crucial point homeI’ve been thinking a lot about boldness lately, about saying what you want to say when you want to say it. This concept of simply stating what you mean is certainly at work in “Requiem,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, one of his most well-known poems: Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and…
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Parastou Forouhar Heals through Subversive Artwork
Following the brutal 1998 murder of her parents, Iranian intellectuals and activists Darius and Parvaneh Forouhar, Berlin-based artist Parastou Forouhar began her journey through grief with powerful subversive artwork. With her parents’ democratic fervor, Forouhar’s art explores issues from democracy to women’s rights to the devastating murders. Through fluid shapes and soft, feminine colors, the beauty…
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What are some End-of-Life issues? (Interview)
Jennifer Marsh, LMFT, MS is Community Education & Outreach Coordinator at the Elizabeth Hospice, a private nonprofit in Escondido, CA. The Elizabeth Hospice provides hospice care and counseling to terminally ill individuals and their families, whether or not they can pay. Jennifer’s outreach position allows her the opportunity to educate others about hospice, and SevenPonds…
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“All for Now”
A reflective book that explores impermanence, mindfulness, and how we approach life and its endingBrother Stephen dies suddenly. That’s when matters get more complicated. During a meeting of school administrators, Brother Stephen, the main character of Joseph di Prisco’s novel, All for Now, monk at a Catholic Seminary and a teacher in the attached high school, dies “sprawled along a weathered conference table like somebody’s lost raincoat.” The last thing…
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Marriage at the End-of-Life
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’d like to share this touching story of a deathbed-wedding from the New York Times. from the article Making a Judgment on Love by Minneapolis state court judge Lloyd Zimmerman: “All I wanted was a drink. That, however, would be considered poor decorum for a judge, and judges lose their…
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