News of Ms. Laurel

[Toni Petrinovich]

Lisa, would you take a look at the website that I am sending you by separate
email and if you feel appropriate, print out whatever pages Laurel and Rick
might be drawn to.  This doctor healed herself from cancer with no medical
intervention and no chemo - and she is a medical doctor.  Very good work.

Blessings, Toni Petrinovich
www.sacredspaceswa.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Heft" <lisaheft at pacbell.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: News of Ms. Laurel


> Hello, dear friends and colleagues --
>
> Late last night and early this morning I received calls from Laurel's
> family and our colleague Terrie Conway telling me how the surgery went.
> Thank you SO much, Terrie, for thinking to call in the midst of all that
> is going on.
>
> Alas, the surgery went smoothly and Laurel is recovering well...
>
> ...but...
>
> She has advanced ovarian cancer.  My heart breaks.
>
> She will get out of the hospital in 4 or 5 days, and in a week or two
> she will begin chemotherapy.
>
> The doctors tell her that if chemotherapy goes well, she will have 2 to
> 5 years to live.
>
> Now we know that this outcome is not always what they say -- we know
> (and some of you are) survivors of AIDS and cancer who live long beyond
> what the doctors thought.  And at best, doctors can only guess, of
> course.
>
> And Ms. Laurel is a fighter.
>
> When I was staying with Laurel and her family some weeks before and
> after OSonOS last month, Laurel and Rick spoke of wanting to change
> their life, to leave their jobs and to give away or sell most of their
> possessions, and live their lives in a simple cabin or a trailer to
> simplify life and bring them closer to the really important things such
> as nature and being fully present.  This was before any clues of health
> issues to come.  I have a feeling that releasing and doing will come
> much more easily to them now.
>
> So we shall see what we shall see, eh?  Our fierce love just has to get
> fiercer, that's all.
>
> My thanks to those of you who have written to me directly -- I also
> appreciate your support and our community's connection during these
> tumultuous times.
>
> So not only do I send up the prayer flag again, I am also rolling the
> prayer wheel.
>
> This is adapted from a website called Dharma Haven:
>
> - - -
> Tibetan prayer wheels are rolls of thin paper imprinted with many copies
> of prayer and wound around an axle in a protective container, which is
> spun around and around.  Tibetan Buddhists believe that spinning this
> form of the mantra around in a wheel invokes the powerful benevolent
> attention and blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion.
>
> Many Tibetans carry small wheels around and spin them as they go
> walking. Larger wheels, which may be several meters in height and
> diameter, are often mounted in rows next to pathways, to be spun by
> people entering a shrine, or along the route which people use as they
> walk slowly around and around a sacred site.  Wheels are also placed
> where they can be spun by wind or by flowing water. Smaller mounted
> wheels can be spun by the heat rising from a flame or by steam from a
> stove, or placed on a tabletop to be spun by hand.
> - - -
>
> So as you pass by a flame or some steam rising up from a teapot -- as
> you walk past a river -- as you think of Laurel and connect with your
> inner spirit, your spirit guides, your gods and goddesses, your sense of
> our one-ness, your feelings of connection to nature and breathing and
> sunlight -- as you hold your children and press your face against their
> tousled hair -- as you walk by a rose kissed by dew or see a sunset that
> makes you catch your breath...
>
> ...Laurel and Rick and their loved ones will breathe in your love and
> feel the nutrition of your support coursing through their veins and
> hearts and spirits, better medicine than any chemotherapy ever.  And
> without the toxic side effects !
>
>
> - - - - -
>
>
> I leave for a three-day retreat in Open Space for the Catholic Diocese
> of San Jose (and many thanks for those of you who have shared your ideas
> and support for the design of that event -- I'll tell you how it
> goes!).  So if I have internet access, I'll check my messages.  If not,
> I shall return to check my messages at the latest, Sunday morning.  You
> can fax Rick and Laurel messages directly through their friends Janet
> and (another) Rick at 250 744-1697 (Canada) or you can email messages to
> me and I'll fax them on ahead for you upon my return.
>
> Fierce love.
>
> Lisa
>
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