Touch: The Journal of Healing
Touch: The Journal of Healing
Issue 5
September 2010
Table of Contents
Editor: O.P.W. Fredericks
Assistant Editor: Daniel Milbo
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Eating the Wound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cell Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chemo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Forsythia is in Full Bloom as My Mom
Pulls Away in her Sunshine Yellow Beetle
with Cancer Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Like My Mother in the Morning . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Fog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
In the Rivers of My Affection . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Time to Weep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Time consoles the mourner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Editors Choice:
The Voice of Kristen Roedell . . . . . . . . . . .
Field Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Blushing Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Girls with Gardenias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Yosemite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Covet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Occupation Madre (pastel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Touch of the Notch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
for Mama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Glamour (photograph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dancing With The Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Life Without GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
After Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo
Kelly Coveny
Stephen Mead
Arlene L. Mandell
Ed Bennett
Kelly Coveny
Janet Sunderland
Nancy Calhoun
Sergio A. Ortiz
C.E. Chaffin
Deborah Kroman
O.P.W. Fredericks
Kristin Roedell
Kristin Roedell
Kristin Roedell
Sharon Erby
Luke Evans
Monique Hayes
Stephen Mead
Theresa Senato Edwards
Stacey Dye
Stacey Dye
Alarie Tennille
Bobbi Sinha-Morey
Kelly Coveny
O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo
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Touch: The Journal of Healing
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